Ever Since the World Begun

“Its destiny that guides as all and by its hand we rise and fall. But only for a moment time enough to catch our breath again…. …. …Its love that keeps us holding on until we see the sun again.” - Survivors

Once upon a time during King Solomon’s reign. He said “destiny guides the fate of men… that a boy born in the east and a girl born in the west today shall marry in 20 years time.” Upon hearing it the Eagle and the Owl declare that such cannot be the case for destiny is made by men and not written in their stars.

King Solomon dares the Eagle and the Owl, that in 20 years time both child shall met and marry for it is their destiny to be together. The Eagle and the Owl take up the challenge and made sure that the marriage will never happen. Flying as fast as it could the Eagle went to the west and kidnapped the baby girl – putting it in the remotest of island. The Eagle and the Owl become the girl’s parents, feeding her, giving everything and fulfilling her need.

Twenty years pass…. In the east, the boy grew up to become a fisherman. One day during a powerful storm his boat was shored in the remote island where the girl is located. It was love at first sight for the girl has not seen a man in her life and the boy has never seen such beauty and grace. They fell in love and swore to be together – and hatched a plan to be so. The girl told the boy to sail back to the east and make a wooden horse inlaid in gold large enough to fit them both. More like a small version of the Trojan horse.

In the evening the Eagle and the Owl arrived to visit the girl. They announced that the time has come to visit King Solomon – assured and confident that they had won. The girl pleads the Eagle and the Owl for one last gift a wooden horse inlaid in gold. Sweeping west the Eagle and the Owl they could not find any, then turning east there in the beach a wooden horse inlaid in gold.

With all its might the Eagle clutched the wooden horse and brought it to the island.
Early morning the Eagle told the girl to prepare for the travel to King Solomon’s temple. Afraid the girl said “Mother… I may fall from your back as we fly, if I hold into your claws I may lose grip or get injured. Can it be that I get inside my wooden horse, where I am safe and protected.” The Eagle said “then be it my child get inside your favorite wooden horse as we fly far way into your destiny.”

The day of reckoning has come!!! The conceited Eagle and the conniving owl presented to King Solomon the wooden horse where the girl is hidden, declaring that for 20 years the girl born in the west have never seen a man, that she had stayed in the remotest island, that it is but impossible for the boy in the east to met her and marry, that destiny is but man’s way of justifying his condition.
“Very well” said King Solomon “Open the wooden horse and let see for ourselves.”

Lo and Behold!!! Before the King’s court the boy from the east is lock in tight embrace with the girl from the west. There in the midst of everyone the wise King pronounced them husband and wife.

Indeed, the fate of men is written in their stars and our decisions lead us to our destiny. The Eagle in her shame ascend to the highest heaven tucked her wings to fall in the ground and meet her fate. The owl went to the forest disgraced, venturing only during the night ever watchful and forever haunted by not believing in destiny.

They said that you and your better-half(ves) are married in heaven and remarried again in earth.

Ergo the cliché “What God has put together, let no man put asunder.” In Hindu our better-half(ves) are part of us in the beginning of time though we lost it and our life are spent searching for them – our “soul mate.”

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