What if You Were the Chosen One?

What if you were the chosen one? How would that affect every decision you made, and every step you took?

I've just watched some reruns of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, the cult-series of the late 90's and early 2000. Buffy is a teenage girl who discovers that she has super-strengths, and that it's her destiny to save the world, again, and again, whether she likes it or not. The series is created by one of Hollywood's rare feminists, Joss Whedon, who has once and again proven his belief in strong women. (It's an interesting contrast to the Vampire series' that are now in vogue ten years later; True Blood and the Twilight movies. In these two sagas, women, in particular Bella, the main protagonist of the Twilight chronicle, serve no bigger purpose then as the love interest of the 'bad guys' -- the vampires and the werewolves. The biggest tension-builder is about when and how they will have sex [after marriage, of course]. Both of which are based on books, written by women ...)

Back to Buffy, and back to you. Buffy doesn't have a choice in her role as being the chosen one. She has to accept it, and shoulder the responsibilities the role demands. And because of her acceptance of who she is, she grows into a true heroine, despite her very human flaws. I believe we all are Buffy in that sense. We are all the chosen one. The one we've been waiting for. But unlike Buffy, no one tells us about our uniqueness and the special role we are to fill in the world. Instead we are taught how to compare and compete with everyone else, which means in the end that we forget who we really are. We forget about our true potential -- how incredibly unique we are -- and we forget that we really are the chosen one.

And that's a waste, and quite frankly, a sacrilege. Because so far, despite the fact that we have discovered about 100 billion stars just in our own galaxy, and there are billions upon billions of galaxies, we still haven't found any sign of intelligent life in the Universe besides us. Maybe there is, maybe there isn't. The point, however, is that the probability of anyone of us being here is, in the grand scheme, so heart-breakingly minute that we should celebrate each and everyone one of our lives as the true miracles they are. And that makes You, in all your glory, and in all your weaknesses, a unique and very, very important expression of the Universe that has never existed before you, and will never exist again.

Buffy grows into her role as a world-savior, and is able to do so because she believes that she is the chosen one. My question to you is: If you were the chosen one? How would that affect the decisions you make? How would you choose to live your life? And how would you save the world, if the world depended on it?

Lotta Alsen teaches women how to make money, step into their powers
and change the world. She has a MSc in International Economics, is
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Comments

[Neal Jansons]

You need to watch the rest of the series...the whole "Chosen One" narrative gets pretty well subverted in the last season.

Either we are all "chosen ones" or no one is "chosen". Life isn't a story, and part of why I think we, as a society, keep screwing up so badly is that we act like it is. Stories have "chosen ones" to justify their protagonist, make them special, and justify why all this weird stuff happens to them. But in real life, we are all the protagonists of our little tales, we are all "chosen".