For this blog post I've decided to do the attempt to tackle the question of fate vs. free will.
Fate (per definition from google) is "The development of events outside a person's control." Meaning that basically it is all the things in life that are happen and are going to happen simply because the higher power of the universe wills them that way.
Free will (again, per definition from google) is "the ability to act at one's own discretion, without the constrains of fate." Again, this means that basically its out ability to act and do as we please.
Now, for the big question. What defines the things we do, fate vs. free will? No one has been able to come up with a simple answer for this, and honestly there probably isnt one. Personally i feel that it is a good mix of both, I think you kinda can't have one without the other. This is because if we left every life choice be decided by faith then nothing would ever be accomplished, we would become paralyzed by our lack of decision. And the same can essentually be said about trying to control everything with our free will, if something is meant to happen in life then one way or another it is going to happen, no matter how hard we try to stop it.
This is essentially the problem that arises in Oedipus Rex as Oedipus is told the prophecy that is going to happen to him so attempts to do everything in his power to keep it from coming true. Even in doing this, even with extending the reach of his free will he still can not escape fate and the prophecy reins true.
I guess it boils down to the fact that personally, I feel like to make life work and to move forward in it, we need a good balance between fate and free will. We have to make out own choices and live with the consequences of them, not just wait for some outside force to decide things for us, but in the end if something is supposed to happen, it will happen regardless of what we do to try and stop it.
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