In this discussion study, the author looks into the articles that Pavel Kouba has devoted to phenomenological ontology over the past twenty-three years. The study’s origin, in the immediate sense, can be found in Kouba’s recent article in issue 57 of Reflexe, titled “Fenomenologie na křižovatce. Zamyšlení nad prací Elišky Fulínové La conception phénoménologique de l’espace” “Phenomenology at the Crossroads. Reflections on Eliška Fulínová’s La phénoménologique de l’espace”. In the study presented here, the author summarizes Kouba’s project and then draws attention to a different path of phenomenology than that followed by either Fulínová or Kouba (before their paths parted). This different, possible phenomenology gives up on the thinking of the nature of an entity’s being, i. e. ontology, and simply focuses on the appearing situation and its transformations. The author indicates that which is, for the movement of these transformations, characteristic, and notes on the margins that movement of such a nature can be well described in Czech by the word osud “destiny”.