Some argue that life is governed by an imaginary power and irresistible influence that provides a fixed pattern and predetermined timeline of events which control the existence of every individual under the sun. This is the so called Destiny, which is recognised as inevitable and unchangeable by nature. This belief, is also known as ‘Fatalism’ and obviously based on the belief that there is a natural order of things in the universe.
‘Que Sara Sara, whatever will be, will be…the future’s not ours to see…’ Those who believe in fate take it as the Divine will. There are views that God determined in advance the destiny of every soul, which no mortal had the power to question.
People usually resign to the inevitable and the unseen hands that predetermine the course of events in their lives for comfort when it comes to difficult moments in life. Fatalist, believes in the theory that nothing human can possibly change in one’s future.
Some says, that life, is just a matter of choice.
This saying finds support in the belief that human have the power to choose their own deeds. Simply because men are endowed with free will.
Free will pronounces that the fate of an individual is determined by the way he chooses to be or not to be, to do or not to do. One must be responsible for things one does, for every choices made, and for his own condition, circumstances, state of affairs and even the effect of his thoughts and deeds on others and the world he lives in.
With free will, an act that produces a negative consequence, or the reverse of it, is attributed to the workings of the universal principle of cause and effect, also known as Karma.
Karma is said to be the sum of all that an individual did, is currently doing and will do. Hence, everyone is responsible for his own life and the pain of the others, being the sum effect of all deeds he actively created, past or present, including future experiences.
Lives certainly are not simply governed by fate, neither is it determined only by choice.
The existence of life per se is a glorious mystery. Human intervention has yet to explain that when one’s life would end after it began. Fate or destiny seem to be the nearest, of not the only, rationalization for this.
When an individual starts to recognise, and act on, his free will, everything that happens in his life is then the result of his exercise of the power of choice. The law of cause and effect then processes his thoughts and deeds in the natural order of things. And thus whatever he sows, he reaps.
To live life then is a matter of choice. But until when is a matter of fate.
DO live life to the fullest before it is too late.
