Destiny

Every choice we make, assuming every choice is of our own free will, prevents us from doing something else. We can choose to do one specific event and going to this event could alter our lives by either what we learn or a person we meet or both. However, by going to this event we rule out the possibility of going to another event at the same time that could change our lives just as drastically as going to the other event, simply by showing us different people or knowledge. So, assuming every choice is of our own free will, could we go through life making all of the wrong choices and making our life so much worse by choosing the wrong event, person or thing?

While we could debate on how eating ham instead of turkey can change ones life because they missed out the pleasures of turkey, that effect on your life is probably much less than perhaps, choosing the wrong person to spend the rest of your life with. However, if we spend all of our time worrying if we picked the right friends or the right lover, we will never have time to find out of we are with the right person and if we are making correct decisions.

Assuming that every choice that we make is of our own free will then can we control our own destiny? Can it really be just our own fault for not being able to see what is good for us? Sociology tells us that nothing we do exists in a vacuum. So every choice we make effects something else either by limiting our choices or by introducing us to something else. The chances of some person going through their whole life without making one single correct choice about a life changing even is slim to none yet, sometimes the impossible does happen...