When Winston Churchill became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1940, he wrote in his journal something that would later define his outlook on life:
“I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial.”
His rise to power was a result of the United Kingdom needing strong leadership to deal with the oncoming terror of the Nazi forces. Churchill, from the very beginning, was warning the U.K. that Germany was becoming an imminent danger, yet the majority thought he was merely crazy.
That was until it was actually happening.
But Churchill was prepared, and he did all that he could to ensure that the U.K. would survive its most formidable challenge yet. And in the end, they defeated Germany and survived.
How incredibly powerful must it have felt to feel like your destiny was right? And that your conviction in what you thought was right was later proven to be right?
Whether destiny is real or not is a discussion best left for another day, but what cannot be argued against is the potency of believing in destiny.
To feel like you have a purpose to serve and dedicate your life to is perhaps more important than to actually confirm if destiny exists.
In other words, it is the story we tell ourselves that matters more than anything. The world often becomes what we believe it can be.