Are We Destined to Be Something?

For this unit, we read Antigone and Oedipus the King, by Sophocles. The main topic for both these Greek dramas are indisputable destinies and taking charge of fate. After reading these stories, I've started to think if all of us have a destiny and/or fate or if humankind has a destiny. Are our lives planned ahead of our birth? If so, by who? Are we able to change it? I'd hope that's not the case, having a superior something knowing what is there to come in my life. It probably sounds crazy, I know, but think of it. From the very beginning of the universe, The Big Bang, every impossible circumstance happened for that specific event to be possible. The asteroid that separated a floating rock to become the Earth and the Moon. What if the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs missed? There wouldn't be us. If it weren't for these tiny things to happen billions and millions of years ago, we wouldn't be here. Everything happens for a reason. Every action has a reaction and that reaction can cause something else. Maybe our fate is predetermined. Or maybe it's all a big coincidence. Whatever it is, I don't think we have the power of taking charge of what happens to us. Unfortunately, only fate can determine that (at least in my mind). Even thinking about this hurts my brain. Ouch.

Is destiny real? By Lily Loewen

In both Oedipus the King and "Minority Report", the idea of whether destiny and fate are real is tossed up in the air. And ever since I was younger I always thought that there is definitely fate and destiny that affects our lives. The saying that "everything happens for a reason" was a huge part of my life and I kind of lived by it. But now I have completely changed. I think that I control my life and that my decisions is what causes how my life will go, not my destiny. Everything I do is because I decided to do them, and whether or not I achieve something or I fail at something- that's up to me. Nothing just happens for a reason. Things happen because I made them happen, not because it was my fate. I feel like if I say my life is run by fate, my accomplishes didn't happen because I worked hard, they happened because it was suppose to and had nothing to do with what I did. I don't want that to be the way I earned everything I earned and lost everything I lost. I work hard to make things happen for me, and I want all my hard work to pay off for something. I would hate it if I didn't accomplish something because my fate or destiny wouldn't let me. That means it doesn't matter how much I try, I won't accomplish it anyways which is terrible. I believe that I do things because they will actually affect me, and that I have control over my life and the way I live it.