“Fate Will Take What Fate Will Have”- William Somerset Maugham
(Image source- https://www.wired.com/story/giving-open-source-projects-life-after-a-developers-death/ ) June 6, 2019 People say there are only two finite things in this World- however, I believe there’s only one … DEATH. Many of you may not agree but I do believe DEATH is the only certainty in the whole world. Everything else is your destiny … and what you make of your life. William Somerset Maugham’s last play, “Sheppey”, tells the story of Sheppey, an hairdresser, who believes he is a lucky man. Maugham ends the play with an old Arabic Fable, where “DEATH” visits Sheppey; and in reply to Sheppey, tells the story of a merchant in Baghdad trying to escape death ( source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheppey_(play) ) . Jeffrey Archer’s very first chapter, titled “Death Speaks” in his book “To Cut a Long Story Short”, requotes this very Fable. Whatever our life and however good or evil we’ve lived it, in the end we just cannot esc...