If you choose not to make a choice you’ve essentially already made a choice. So if you can’t choose NOT to choose, then do you really have a choice of where your life is going? Yes you do. If you have a choice does that mean there’s no such thing as fate? No it doesn’t. It might not mean you’re destined to follow one path but it could mean that there are several paths that you might take in life. How many paths might we have? Estimate the number of life altering decisions you might have to make in a lifetime. Assume the simplistic scenario of having 3 choices of yes, no, and no choice. You’re looking at the number of life altering decisions to the factor of 3. That’s a lot of different outcomes for a single insignificant human being. Now think of making one bad choice in your life and how many possible outcomes you’ve already eliminated from your list of possible fates. In the case of 1 life altering decision with 3 choices -- one choice would eliminate 2/3 of your possible outcomes. Whether those are the good outcomes or the bad outcomes, no one will ever know.
(fate 1) (fate 2) (fate 3)
(1st choice)
(1st life-altering decision)
So what’s my point? My point is – as humans we have way too many choices to make and are not well-adapted enough to deal with the bad choices we make in life. That’s why we look back in anger; why we live vicariously through others; why we envy; and why we regret. If I could have one super power, it would be the ability to see all the possible outcomes of my life and the lives around me. You and I wouldn't have to be well-adapted. We'd be the master of our own fate.
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