I understand that some feel they can make certain things happen, for example being proactive with homework to be able to go out on the weekend, but I feel that most things that happen in this world are by either fate or chance whichever you wish to call it. Yes human beings can determine their own fate, but this is off of complete chance of the experiences that one has had in their lifetime before that.
Urg this blog post just took a spin off of my original direction... Oh well, onward into the unknown!
Do you believe life is planned our for each of us, or is life just a conglomeration of chances that make us who we are today?
Human beings have contemplated for centuries weather there is an underlying story line in which everybody unknowingly plays along to which determines where we go and what we do with our lives. Others believe that there is no ultimate meaning to everything and all just happens by chance. I personally am partial to both of these. The first because I have had these so called "premonition" in which I am dreaming and the dream seems to realistic and I awake a bit confused as to if that was actually a dream or not. Later in the week or as later as 6 months to a year, have found out from experience, I will have an exact segment of time which is exactly the same of that dream and even if I realize it is happening I can do nothing to stop it, I may try but that is just conforming to what the dream was about initially. Ultimately in that sense I have been persuaded by myself that there is some sort of underlying story line weather concrete or malleable. On the other hand I have a hard time believing everything was created for a sole purpose to live its duration, interact with others, and die as a repetitive timeline and a never ending cycle. Instead there must be some oddities in life where we come by them by complete chance, some may argue that those chances are actually fate speaking in its many ways, but some believe that they are random acts who shape us and mold us as a person. In essence, there is a timeline, with a set expiration date stamped on all of our foreheads from the day we were born, from that point on our life is in our own hands and we create our own road to the end. This road is influenced by many and all aspects of life, but in the end we only have so much time, in that time we discover who we are, weather it was predetermined or not, and then when we do that we live our lives as the people we are, and in the end, our expiration date finally comes, and ends what is to be our existence on this earthly plane.
Wow. What a huge concept/debate you're opening up!
ReplyDeleteI, for one, believe that nothing is random/by chance, and the future and everything that happens and has already happened is known by a greater power. Of course, this is heavily influenced by my religion and belief in an omnipresent, all-knowing God. However, even without these religious beliefs, I feel it is more hopeful and less depressing to think of the world in this way.
The problem with this mindset is when people believe this, but then take it a step further and believe they don't have to do anything, work hard, or be critical of anything, since their life is all planned out anyways. If you can't change your fate, why do anything at all? This sort of circular thinking (metacognition - STICKER!) is self-destructive and flawed. Where we go in life still heavily depends on what we want, and what we do in order to get there. I believe it is our personal decisions and actions that mainly influence our future, but that there is a greater power that all along knows where we're going to end up.
Does this even make sense?