In class I was really struggling with which I believed in, but I think sitting here at home I can make my words more clear.
I don't believe that we have total control over everything, but I also don't believe that no matter what we do there's always one outcome. I like to look at it like this: We have control of what actions we take and, depending on those actions, we get an end result. There can be numerous end results. I could be an astronaut, or a bum on the sidewalk. A stay at home mom or the single mom bread winner of four. I think that life is limitless in the terms of what one can accomplish, but other factors play in to it. We could be born in to a family of limited means, or in to a family with money to piss away and that its self can change the end result.
I want to be a teacher, so that is what I aspire to be. The choices I make are choices that revolve around this idea. So I get up every day and go to work and go to school and read things and shove as much information in my head as I can. But that's because I WANT to. If I keep it up with these actions I will more than likely reach the goal I am after. But let's say I started binge drinking. I stop going to work and school and the only thing I shove in my brain is alcohol. What are the chances of me being a teacher then? Very, very slim.
My fate is what I chose it to be. Actions have great consequences. Through control we help define our fate. Fate is heavily weighted by choices.
I hear you on this one, Sierra. Yes, if you start binge drinking and don't go to work, you will probably not become a teacher; however, you might. Have you ever known people who do the absolutely wrong things and yet they seem to come out on top? How do they do that? Or, what if you lived in a place where education was not an option? No matter how much you worked or studied, if you were not permitted to get your teaching credentials for some reason unrelated to your choices or your dreams, is that fate or freewill? Nice post!
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