After hearing the bad news, Joe Moretti found himself faced with a difficult decision. He could either fight for his life, or peacefully accept his fate. Unfortunately, his decision wouldn’t simply affect his life. What if he wasn’t around in a year to save 3 year old Diana Doyle from falling onto the tracks in front of a moving train? And what if she in turn wasn’t around to become a doctor with the ability to save lives? Maybe even the life of someone Joe cared deeply about? Destinare is a story that examines how each person’s life is connected in ways we don’t even realize. One person’s life affects another. Which in turn impacts another…and another…and another…until the circle is complete and we finally reach our destiny.
“The unexamined life is not worth living” is attributed to the Greek philosopher, Socrates, while he was on trial, and eventually sentenced to death for “corrupting the youth” of society and “impiety”. From Socrates simple statement, Destinare was born. All too often we go through life following a routine. Work. Eat. Watch TV. Sleep. Get up and do it all over again. When we don’t want to do something, more often than not, we don’t. But what is the impact of those decisions? How does what we decide to do (or not do) affect others? Those that choose to take their own lives usually leave a swath of destruction behind. Certainly they were suffering, but what about those they’ve left behind? If they had somehow been convinced to take the time to see how their decision would impact others, would they have acted differently? Or did their decision force others to examine their own lives, to be more introspective? Then again, do we really control our own destiny or are we simply following a path that has been laid out for us? From the Italian word, destino, meaning destiny or fate, Destinare is a fictional story of love, friendship, sacrifice and the never-ending battle to achieve self-awareness. It examines how we arrive where we end up in life, and whether we are, in fact, the “masters of our fate, the captains of our soul”. (William Ernest Henley)
Arriving at book sellers everywhere (paperback and ebook) Monday, October 17th.