Fate By Lucy Partin

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This year we talked a lot about fate while reading plays such an Oedipus which is the best example. But I don't like fate. It's not that I don't like believing that everything happens for a reason it just seems a little too fairy tale like. What doesn't help is that so many people today use fate as an excuse. Like they didn't get into the college they wanted to and they say that it is because fate has other plans. That no matter what they did, they would never be able to get into that college. However, I believe that, that is not entirely true. If you work hard and put in the effort you could get into any college you want. Fate didn't deny you from getting into Penn state, the weekends partying and forgetting about homework assignments did that. 
The meaning of fate just seems almost too surreal. Now I'm not saying that it isn't fun to believe that no matter what bad thing comes your way fate has it all planned out and those bad events are going to eventually lead to the big moment where your life turns good and everything makes sense. I believe that it is your choice and not fate directing your entire life. In the play Oedipus was controlled by fate because the god controlled the outcome. But the play was also based in ancient Greek times with gods that control the water and how the sea moves and the pattern of the moon and produced prophecies that predicted the future and more stuff that just doesn't exist in our culture today. 
Another reason why I think that fate is not real is because I believe in miracles. I like to believe that your life is not planned and that happened something can happen at any moment that changes the course of your life forever. With fate, everything is planned out in an order so that your life turns out exactly the same way every time. However with miracles it's a surprise twist in events that no one expects to happen. Although that could be part of fates plan i believe that is a surprise that could alter your entire life existence forever. 
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Although I do wish that there were gods that could control the sun and who you loved and predict the future, but that it an impossible ask. But what I do know is that my decisions make the outcomes and that eventually shapes my life. And I like it that way. I want to believe that I have the freedom to be anyone or do anything I want without the hanging feelings that no matter what I do, my life will always turn out the same way. I like the freedom of choice and to have the possibility for a surprise ending. Not everything needs to turn out the same way every time and that is OK.

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  1. Paige SumowskiDecember 22, 2019 at 3:04 PM

    I agree that it is nice to have the freedom of choice, but I think under fate there can still be surprises. Fate doesn't necessarily mean that there's a reason behind everything, that there is a god that knows the future. Fate means that things can only happen the way they will. Who knows? Under this definition, could we still have choice? We can't change the past, and the future is a mystery, so by the time something happens, we can't change it and it can't happen any other way than how it did. So in the sense that fate means things can only happen the way they will, could we still have the freedom of choice with fate?

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  2. AnonymousDecember 29, 2019 at 9:17 AM

    I agree. I think or choices determine our own outcome.

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  3. DanielleJanuary 2, 2020 at 9:24 AM

    This brings up so many questions!

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