You Can't Fight Fate

There are those who believe a person's destiny is set in stone, that their fate has been predestined by some higher power. Despite this beliefs preserverance throughout history and different societies, it is truly just an ideology created by man to let himself have an excuse for the way his life turns out. If there was a fate, and it is carved in stone, it is not carved by a God, but rather by men. The combined actions of all people, or all concious beings capable of free will set the course for all future events. In Grapes of Wraith, the Great Depression and the dust bowl were not events that had to happen in some higher power's eyes, however they were caused by acts of man. It was the farmers who drained the life from the topsoil and didn't guard their plantations from the wind who helped lead to the Dust Bowl, and it was the risky lending practices held by bankers and investors that helped lead to the Great Depression. One would like to believe that man has no personable responsibility for those actions, but that is simply not true. Although there are such things as coincidence, a random occuring of events that seem unexplainable, our entire existence is a coincidence.

Now while looking towards my future, I hold my own fate in my hands. My actions this year, and over my entire life, will decide where I go to college, what I major in, where I live, who I marry, and possibly even how I die. Knowing that there is no puppetmaster making decisions for me, I am empowered to make the best use of this year to start engraving the fate of my own choosing in stone. Although I know there will be unpredictable events that will throw my path off course, I know I won't go anywhere unless I point myself in the right direction.