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Expository Essay: Folio 3

“Maybe it was meant to be, maybe the right thing happens”

Fate vs. Free Choice – are our paths mapped out from birth or do we define our own lives?
While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.
Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890)

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.
Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.
William McFee

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
Amy Tan (1952 - )

A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.
Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC)

Romeo and Juliet – Fated to die, no matter what happened
"O, I am fortune's fool!" —Romeo

Meryl believes strongly in fate, instead of blaming her father’s death on anything/one, she just says ‘maybe it was meant to be’

Fate. The concept of a pre-mapped path for each human being is an idea that has intrigued mankind since the dawn of time. To many, the notion of destiny is distressing, as if fate is seizing from them all freedom of choice. To others, fate is a means of coping with that which is otherwise too distressing to contemplate; a reassigning of all fault and blame to an incomprehensible higher power, omniscient and omnipotent, and with the good of mankind at heart. Destiny is a concept mankind has always clung to fervently, many individuals preferring the notion of entrusting their future to...