Fate and Duty

"He who fails to keep turning
the wheel here set in motion
wastes his life in sin,
addicted to the senses, Arjuna."(Teaching 3 line 15)
I chose this teaching because I believe that it is a very important lesson to be learned. A person needs to follow what he needs to do. If he fails to do his duty then he has failed at life. But can that really be considered to be failing. When talking with my girlfriend we discussed this concept. I am under the firm belief that if a person fails to do what is necessary or tries to disrupt the way of life of anything is in the wrong and is a waste of life. My girlfriend, Ariel said that it was important to only follow what they personally believed in. How could a person be blamed for following their own dreams even if they disrupted the way of life of everybody else. "What if you injured a lot of people. Would that be okay?" I asked. She hated the thought of hurting people so she said that it should only be okay to follow a person's dreams if they did not hurt other people. "What if their dreams contradict what they need to do?" This question was something that I was even curious about. Should dreams be shoved aside for duty or should duty only exist if you have dreams. It was after this question that we realized that duty exists in multiple forms. Duty to self, duty to country, duty to beliefs and duty to others. The point of this teaching was not to place on part of life above another. It taught to do your duty in every form. It was only after we discussed this that we were able to realize what this teaching truly meant. A person must do his duty in all forms of life and is a failure if he cannot do so.