We Live With Choices

It's not easy to make decisions sometimes but it's the choices you make that determine the rest of your life. It's all about the decisions we make that

We live our lives on the choices we make and that is free will. But when it leads to an inevitable event, that is fate. But the discussion between Fate and free will is always going to be a big issue. Free will and fate never seem to go together.

Or do they?

I believe that the lives we live are based on free will. There is no such thing as fate. What is free will? Free will is making the choices that you want to make without anyone else's say in it. Basically a control-free choice, a decision that you can make without being stopped. Fate is when you don't have to do anything and it's going to happen.

Now, lets talk about fate. You've probably heard by now all those fictional stories about people who have gotten "prophecies" or the "telling of their future". These stories make it look like that fate is one giant unstoppable force that is unescapable but the book says otherwise. The book says that the oracle(like many many other stories before) tell people their future and it eventually comes true. But that is only because she shapes the future (and doesn't predict it) to those who hear it and they BELIEVE it will come true. The book also mentions Alexander the Great who hunted down the oracle to see his own fortune and she told him that he is invincible. He becomes a great conqueror later on and why? Because he believed it so.

Now lets move onto free will (I have a lot to say but i'll keep it short). In the movie Neo consults with the Oracle and she tells him that he isn't The One. But later he turns out that he is because he believed it so. He made the choice to become the One despite the oracle's "fortune telling". So he had the freedom to be whatever he wanted. He didn't have to be the one but he did anyways. And I guess if he didn't then the oracle would be right...

It's these choices we make that will affect many things. If you've ever watched The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, it shows a great example of choice and fate and free will altogether. There is this one scene in the movie that shows a string of events and choices that lead to one final event of where a taxi driver ends up running over one of the characters and ending her dance career. Benjamin in the story says that if one of these choices in the string of events ended differently, she would still be dancing.

We're all connected is what most metaphysicists say and I believe what they say about it is true. Whatever choices we make can lead to good and bad occurences. And we might not know it. So we have the freedom to choose what we want to do and become but the side effects of them are things we can't exactly control.

Choice is free will and the outcome is fate.