Thursday, October 25, 2012

It was fate...but not really.


What is based on fate and what is based on free will? This question always makes me think a lot. It makes me wonder if fate is even real? Obviously things do happen that we don’t choose to happen, so yes I guess that is considered fate. But the choices we make in life are all based on free will. One does not do things for any other reason than that they want to. If Oedipus didn’t want to be the guy that killed his father, maybe he shouldn’t have killed anyone. This is a simple way to do things that people seem not to understand. If you are scared that you aren’t going to succeed in life and that maybe it is your fate to be something less than your potential, then I’m sorry but you are dumb. It would be your choice to give up or work hard, it has nothing to do with an outside source. I do understand that things like some deaths and natural disasters have nothing to do with choice, but a lot of things that people blame on fate are just decisions that they make. If you fight hard for what you want in life, it is most likely that it will happen. But it will happen because you wanted it to, not because you were destined to live that way.

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