Fate

So the other day I was sitting in my theatre 110 class and we had just read the play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and the teacher asked everyone if they believed in fate or not. As the teacher asked students around the room, I heard a lot of good views and opinions on the subject. As a class, the majority said that they believed in fate. For those of you who don’t know, fate is something that unavoidably befalls on a person. This means that basically your path is already chosen and it is going to end that way no matter what you do; in other words, your destiny. Most of the class said that they believed in fate mainly because everything happens for a reason. In my opinion, I do not believe in fate. I don’t believe that your path is already set before you. I think that you have the choice on how you want your life to be lived by the choices you make and the actions you take. If every human being believed that their life was predetermined, this world would not be able to function. I mean that completely rules out the option of making choices and actions on our own. Personally I live life not worrying about why things happen because I believe these “things” (whatever it may be) just happen and these things can happen whenever and wherever. After my theatre teacher had asked the whole class for their opinion, over half the class had changed their mind.