Free will
The power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one's own discretion. I pursued a modeling career of my own free will.
Fate
The development of events beyond a person's control, regarded as determined by a supernatural power : Fate decided his course for him. His injury is a cruel twist of fate.
The course of someone's life, or the outcome of a particular situation for someone or something, seen as beyond their control : he suffered the same fate as his companion.
Was there a time in your life when someone told you that something improbable would happen and it did? Did the fact that the event was predicted cause you to act differently in order to make the prediction happen? Do people try to make predictions come true? Is this freewill or fate?
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Roman Nava said,
ReplyDeleteDuring my first victory on my very first Muay Thai fight at the Golden gate Internationals. My dad and uncles were so proud of me, that they predicted that I will become an undefeated fighter. sooner or later, every fighting gym/camp would target me, and request the IKF president, Johnny Davis, to set a fight on one of the IKF Muay Thai Kickboxing Amateur cards (International Kickboxing Federation) to fight me. They wanted me to go head to head with one of there best Jr. fighters out of there gyms/camps. It's been a tremendous blessing that I take home the victory. Every time I fight, I always pray to God to protect me, to be in the ring with me when I fight, and to guide me on the path to victory. As you can tell he been hearing my prayers, and it's a big coincidence that I became a high rank undefeated fighter. But in the end I know there's going to be a day where I'm eventually going to lose to a guy thats better than me. Just haven't met him yet, so I got to prepare myself for the worse and move on.
Right after the prediction of what my dad and uncles made that I will soon become undefeated. The way I act got me motivated to train and work harder. This made me into a disciplined, humble person. My coach always told me, "Training hard and intensively will make your fight easy." That gave me an extra boost of motivation. Now I'm shooting for the West Coast World Classic championship Title belt on Nov 25-27, Wish me luck!
After all that has happened to me during my fighting career, based on my interpretation, I think this is Fate because every prayer that I make before my fights, God answers back to it.
When some told me something improbable is when my dad told me he was going to die and he did a couple a months later. people will act differently to make the prediction happen, depending on the scenerio. if its a bad one then people will act so that it dosent come true. if its good then people will act so that it does come true. They way i acted was i didnt really do much to change it because i thought it wouldnt happen.I think people do try to make predictions come true because if its a reward then they are going to want it. If the prdeiction is bad then people will try to keep it from coming true. I really didnt do much to make the prediction come true because i thought his health wasen that bad. The prediction in my case was freewill beacuse my dad had the choose to make himself healthier but he didnt.
ReplyDeleteBen Gamboa said,
ReplyDeleteThis is a story about a time a prediction came true. One day my mom and I went to get Chinese food. After we ate it my mom gave me her fortune cookie. The fortune cookie said that I would meet a long lost friend. Remember that the fortune was not for me. The next day, my mom got a friend request from a high school friend on Facebook.
It is a good example that there is a thing called fate playing a part in life but the choice to get Chinese food was one we made. It can be considered fate or freewill from a persons perspective. I choose to believe that it is a mix of both fate and freewill.
Tiffany Asuncion
ReplyDeleteYes, there was a time in which someone told me that an event was improbable, and yet it still happened. This was in the eighth grade, during the school's annual science fair. Procrastinating a week before, my mother had told me, "Wouldn't it be funny if you actually won? I think it might even happen." At the time, my science fair project was a last minute project for me. Looking at the mediocre presentation board, that read, "How Does Color Affect Heating by Absorption of Light?" and how everything possessed pure simplicity, I heavily doubted myself. The following Sunday after presenting in front of a panel of judges, I walked into the school gym, on the day of Open House, and found a big blue winner's ribbon staring back at me. I won first place.
I thought it was pure luck and coincidence. When my mom said what she said, I worked a tad harder to try to make the, "Prediction," come true. The thought of winning--at all, for that matter, was flattering. My mom did not try to make the prediction come true. Like previous years at the science fair, my mom just stood by, providing me with the materials, but not really assisting. In my opinion, this was free will. I probably wouldn't have had the motivation or initiative to work harder and get the project organized, if it hadn't been for my mom. I made my own decisions to lead me to the win.
Austin Chow
ReplyDeleteOnce upon an improbable event, that was true, was when i was in 7th grade, back in 2009. I was in the school orchestra, and we had a field trip to disneyland. I was with my friend and, he doesn't like roller coasters, but who cares, we all like it. So we ended up going into space mountain, and waited for 3 hours. Then he went on the roller coaster. After the ride he still is scared, but was glad it's over. We got dinner, and went back to our hotels. The next day, we decided to go back to space mountain, since it was such a good ride, and we went on all of the other good ones already. My friend didn't like it though. Anyways, we waited in line for another 3 hours, this one was longer. We were almost there to the first entrance. That's what sucks about space mountain. We have to line up to go to entrance, then line up to that line for the main entrance, then line up for the actual ride. We were almost there. My friend was sweating like heck cause he's very scared. He keeps saying stuff to persuade us that we shouldn't go on, and the ride will break. He has to go on the ride, because he's not aloud to leave the group, since we were in 7th grade. When we were finally there, we were going in, the security stopped us, and said the line was closed. We were so mad, because we waited from 4, and now it was 7. However, my friend was happy.
I believe that was free will, because there's nothing to support saying that it is fate.
Alex Lopez said……
ReplyDeleteOne time in the 7th grade I had a big test and I studied for hours my mom told me that she was proud of me for studying and that I would get a really good grade on my test. I took the test and then when I got it back got I 95 out of a 100. No, that prediction did not make act differently I really didn’t think about it. The only thing that was on my mind that day was the test. Sometimes if people go to a fortune teller and they get a really good fortune people will try to make that fortune come true. But if a person goes to a fortune teller and they also get a really good fortune people will say it is just a fortune that will properly never come true and will let whatever happen, happen. It is different for every person, some people believe in fate. And for others they don’t believe in fate but they rather believe in freewill, someone making his or her own choices and will face either the good or bad consequences. In my personal opinion I do believe in fate but also I do believe in freewill.
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ReplyDeleteSherry Guan
ReplyDeleteThere was a time in my life when someone predicted an improbable event. It wasn't as much a someone as it was a something. The previous night before said event happened I had had a dream and in the dream I had hurt myself. I had a huge cast on my left arm and was sitting in my doctor's office as he looked at the x-rays. When I woke up I had a really strange feeling. So when I went to school I was extremely cautious, turning corners slowly, walking slowly. I did everything in my power to not get hurt. When the end of the day came nothing happened so when I went to my after school program, I gave up. Nothing had happened to me during the day so I just went on with my life. But when we were playing football, I was feeling a bit adventurous so I went out of my way to try to catch every ball that was thrown or kicked. That was a big mistake. Someone had punt the ball and I had never learned how to properly catch a punted ball. So I caught the ball awkwardly and that was when I felt it. The red, hot pain shooting down my right arm. I had broken my finger. I had broken things before so I knew the feeling. All of the sudden I had a very strong sense of deja vu. My dream had come true.
I believe that there is such thing as fate. I believe that you are fated to love someone, to meet someone, or do something. But that doesn't mean it is set in stone. As cheesy as it sounds, you can write your own future. I believe that life is based upon a mix of fate and free will.
Daisa Marie Pimentel
ReplyDeleteI've always believed in fate and the idea that you can't escape your own. Whenever the topic of fate comes to play, I always think about the time in seventh grade when my cousin said I would end up liking this random guy that went to our neighboring middle school. We would always visit our friends at Washington Manor and there was always this one guy just kind of chilling with us after school. My cousin jokingly predicted that I would end up liking him, which I didn't really want to happen. But as time went on, that boy started actually hanging out with us I started to notice that he was actually pretty cute. Once that dawned on me, I thought back to my cousin's prediction and got angry. I talked to her later that night saying how her oracle was technically coming true. Needless to say, she was ecstatic. After all of her teasing, I told her something on the lines of, "I'll end up liking him, but not as much as you will." When I think about, that guy was really just a middle school crush, which without realizing over time, I got over. The true irony and fate is that that boy and that cousin are currently dating. It's as if we both predicted each other’s futures, I said she'd end up liking him more than me, which she does. Him and I are pretty much cousins ourselves now that the two go out. None of this was free will; I got over my crush like it was nothing, and over time my cousin found herself falling for him. Only when they officially started to go out were my cousin and I reminded of our accurate predictions. You can think you're making your own decisions independently, whereas this here was due all to fate.
Melissa Ruiz
ReplyDeleteThere was this time when I went to my moms frieds house she would read cards about angels and she told me a couple characteristics, goals and changes that were going to occur in a near future, this was when i was in 6th grade and I was a completly different person and by next year most of the thigns that she told me were starting to come true for example she told me I would end up moving with my dad and I did and other things that I wont mention here but they are good and they are coming true and she was right because most of the things thats she said came true.
The prediction did not chaged the way I thought back then I really thought it was all lies and how would she know and I didnt belive on things like that I still kinda dont, so I ingnored everyhting that she said and just continued living my life how it usually was and then allof the sudden I ended up going through a bunch of changes at the same time which helped me become the person that I am now not the best human being ofcourse but I learned alot and changed so much.
I think people do try to make predictions become true but thats just complelty changes the purpose of fate because you know it will happen and you are wanting it to happen and puting effort to make it come true which makes it freewill.
I have never had someone tell me my future before so I can't say that it has happened to me. If it was to happen to me I would not try to make it come true because what if it is a bad future then you would try not to make it come true. But if it was a good future I would live my life the way I have been living my life the way I have been even before my future has been told. Some people may try to make their future come true if it is a good one or else they will just leave it alone. I would say that this is free will because you are trying to make it happen by doing things that will make this happen. If it is a bad one then that person will use their free will to try to make that future not come true.
ReplyDeleteTianna Dillman
ReplyDeleteDuring my trip to L.A we were going to Disney Land,Universal Studios and Hollywood. Every time we go to L.A i meet someone famous. As me and my mom were talking we were thinking of who we possibly might meet this time.My mom told me that it would be weird if i met Miley Cyrus while in L.A because i was just watching a interview with her on it. After a few days of being in L.A we were walking around Hollywood and we were going into a Frozen Yogurt place called "Pink Berry Frozen Yogurt".We saw some paparazzi taking pictures of someone in Pink Berry,soon after they left because the manager said they were causing a big scene. So as me and my family walk in we see Miley Cyrus me and mom look at each other and we couldn't believe our eyes!Miley Cyrus was ordering yogurt then after we ordered yogurt i went up to her and met her!Me and my whole family couldn't believe it because of my mom saying it would be weird to meet Miley.In this event i didn't act any different because i would have never thought it would come true.Although i do believe that some people actually go out of their way to make predictions happen.I believe this was fate because i have always wanted to meet Miley Cyrus, i have always been a big fan of her.
Benson Liang
ReplyDeleteMy mom said that I was going to be like my father. Now I realize I do have a lot in common with my father. The prediction didn't cause me to do anything to make it come true. I forgot about it until now. It was natural for me to become like my father. People would try to make predictions come true if it is a prediction with a favorable outcome. If someone heard they would find a hundred dollars, then they might keep their eyes peeled that day for any sign of the money. If it is a prediction with a bad outcome, then people would usually do whatever they could to avoid having the prediction come true. This is assuming people believe the prediction. If they don't then they would just carry on as if they hadn't heard the prediction. It is free will. Whenever you make a conscious decision to do something it is free will, however free will is influenced by things beyond your control.
Christian Rodriguez
ReplyDeleteI think fate and freewill are intertwined. Like in the Final Destination movies, someone gets a vision that everyone around them will die. This is fate, it's meant to happen. But if they decide to take action, that is freewill, since you decide to do something about it.
An example of fate was when my mom was pregnant with me. She was told by the doctors that she was pregnant with a girl. She went to the store one day when suddenly a random worker saw her, walked up to her and said, "You're pregnant with a boy". My mom was confused and explained to him that she was pregnant with a girl but the man insisted it was a boy. This was fate and it turned out to be true.
Alejandra Najera Sanchez:
ReplyDeleteWhen I was about three years old my untie predicted to my father that my mother was going to leave us and my 2 oldest sisters were going to leave with her. After two months passed she left and said that she prefers going to parties than to be taking care of her daughter which that was me. Two weeks later my sisters left a letter telling my dad that they were tired of him treating them really bad, they took me with them but the next day I started crying that I wanted to go back with my father. That same day my mom called my dad telling him to go and get me because I wanted to go back with him. And so my father has been my parent ever since I was 3 years old. All my unties help my dad a lot with me because he had never had experience of taking care of a little girl on his own. And that’s the reason why I love my father with all my heart even if he hates me.
The fact of my untie predicting did not change anything because my father was more prepared to just tell my mom that he was okay that she was leaving. Also it does not interfere with the prediction my untie made because she was actually correct that my mother was going to leave and go party instead of her watching over me and her family.
Sometimes people do actually try making predictions true just like me and my father he told me I can do well in school and succeed in life. And I am trying my best to make that happen because I want to do well in school and I want to be the first one in my family to graduate from high school and also the first one to go to college.
Well in my point of view I believe more in ate because we should always follow our soul and what it tells us to do. Yes we know it’s sometimes wrong but most of the time is always correct and it tells you the correct path you should take. But some other people may believe in free will but that’s their way of thinking of them self.
Leila Harara
ReplyDeleteI think that everyone has experienced this scenario before. It may be so common that it isn't so apparent. Everyday people predict things that end up happening. It could be fate or people can just have intuitive intuitions. There was one instance where my older brother and I were playing basketball. He predicted that he would make an impossible shot from across the court. It5 was a pretty improbable bet. So I sat back and watched as he tried to gain the correct leverage to make the shot. He positioned himself twenty different ways and was constantly dribbling the bright orange ball. He planted himself on one spot and built up his momentum to shoot. At last he made the shot and believe it or not it landed perfectly in the hoop!I was amazed. To this day I just believe it was luck. He made his prediction come true. It was really surprising. I don't think it was freewill or fate, I think it was just luck.
Christian Olide
ReplyDeleteI have never had someone telling me that something was going to happened or my future. But someone told me something that had happen to them and someone told them it was going to happened. My friend told me that 2 years ago his brother wanted to got to a party and he had told his parents about it so they were like maybe so he kept asking them so the day had come and he told them agene but his dad said no cuz he had a bad feeling and told him that the party he was going was maybe going to have a drive by cause of the area it was in. so he told him no so then my friends brother had waited for them to go to sleep so he could sneak out to go to the party so then like 2 or 3 hours pass he called the his dad and told him that he was at the party and it was a drive by.
As with Benson's case, many people in my life have told me that I will turn out like my father. However, with this prediction, I tried my best not to act like my father because I wanted to be a completely different person from everyone else in my family, a chance to be unique. Until recently, I have not noticed that whenever I try my best to try to stray from my father's characteristics, I end up completely being pushed back into being like him.
ReplyDeleteThere are some characteristics of my father that I cannot avoid at all. One characteristic is his love of being the boss and doing everything. When I try to stray from this, I usually try do so in a group setting, where I let others delegate work and choose what they want me to do. Eventually though, I start feeling restless from how slow groups usually move, so I try to take command and do everything myself so we can move faster and more efficiently. I tried to have free will and shake off my father's leadership style characteristics, but fate always steers me back into that role.
Another characteristic is his booming voice. As a child and continuing into my teen years, I tried vigorously to avoid this trait of his, feeling that it would turn off people with its boisterous volume. However, once again, fate steers me back into my father's role. When I start a conversation with a stranger, I try my best to speak quietly and prudently. However, when they cannot hear me at first, I immediately switch to my father's tone of voice, which is the fate I was predicted to have. I try as hard as I can with my free will to speak softly, but fate pushes me to speak as my father does.
In general, I believe that people try their hardest to enforce their free will, but in the end, fate will win over. The gradual victory of fate will be subtle, but when you notice your fate, you will see that it is unchangeable. You can try to escape the clutches of fate with large acts of free will, but in the end, fate will grab you back and put you in your place.
Kevin Nguyen,
ReplyDeleteBefore our football game against SLZ, I told my teammates and predicted that the score was going to be 56-0, I was wrong, but I was right. I was right that we'd still hand a blow-out to them. 40-0, I even scored my 2nd touchdown of the season that game, including no picks. This game was fate. It was meant to be a blow-out to show how good this (our) team is, and will be for the next 2 years on Varsity, where the big boys play. This is also free-will to show what the other teams will see whats coming to them by next year and the following one. This undefeated league champions will continue their free-will regime for the next 2 years. And you can call us the NCS champions by then.
Yes, it happened to me before. The one time that someone told me something improbable, happened the time I was living in Colorado. I was going around with my mom at a mall, and we saw her friend who was psychic. I was wondering and I was very curious of what she could do, so I asked my mom if she could tell where I’ll be at in one year. I was in 3rd grade.. She said that I’ll be in school, with people that’s so different from me. So I didn’t really understand, that time. A year later came and as my mom was looking for a hospital she could work since she was a nurse, my dad decided to just moved to California where we had a lot of relatives and where it was diverse. So then we moved and there I am sitting down (san jose) in a room full of Mexicans,Filipinos, African americans and white people. Meeting new friends, was a really good thing. I started to move around Stockton,sacramento & now here in san leandro. Moving to CALI was one of the best things that happened to me.
ReplyDeleteI think this is fate since, my mom was always praying to god for a job with good paying and since one of the big reasons that I moved here was my moms job as a nurse.
S/o to my brothers, go with the FLOW. -angelo
When I was in middle school I was extremely shy, I had let everyone just walk over me because I was afraid of what people thought about me. I had extremely low self esteem and people would make fun of me everyday about how I looked, how I acted, and how I would never stand up for myself. I would go home mad about how I could never stand up for myself. It was until this one girl had made fun of me one time to many that had really changed me. She had told me that I would never have real friends, that I would be a classic glasses wearing and braces "freak" for life and would never ever speak up for myself and be confident.
ReplyDeleteI had truly believed her. I believed I would never speak for myself, that I would just be as who I was seen as and never be confident at all. One day I had went to the optometrist and was prescribed contact lenses since my glasses were so thick, I had a new sense of the world. That I could finally be confident. Since I have gotten contacts I noticed I had spoke more confidently and more people have respected me for it.
When people get to know me they would never guess that I had really low self esteem or that I was quiet before. I have changed to like who I am, that it is okay for me to speak out and to be heard.
I believe it was freewill. If I had not changed myself little by little I would have stayed quiet remaining as I was. I am confident about who I am now because I have realized that there was really nothing to be ashamed about and had told myself everyday that I can do whatever I set my heart on doing.
Brandon Estrella*
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure I've had many things said to me that have been improbable. I've had family tell me that I was going to be big, which in fact I somehow am. I've been told many things now that I think about it. But the one I like the most is the one where most of my family has told me that I am going to be good in school and outside of school. They've always said that to me, and yes, I did sort of act different when I heard that because I tried to impress with my school work to show that I was capable of it. My parents, my aunties, and my cousins have said it, and it makes me feel good about myself because they actually believe in me. Afterwards, I started slacking when I saw that I was good at school and I could slide through class without putting much effort into my work and still achieve an A. I had a downfall after that because I started messing up my A's and downgraded to a B. My dad saw that and also told me that I would have to pick it up or else my grades would downgrade even more. Of course, I didn't really pay attention and kept on slacking. Now here I am, with average grades that don't fit to my expectations or my family's expectations. Sometimes I am also portrayed as being dumb, which I'm sure no one would like. Furthermore, I think that it began with fate because they said I'd be good at school because I always got awards in Elementary school and I had A's in middle school. I also think that me getting bad grades was freewill because I didn't listen to my father or my mother, so it was sort of my fault for not doing so and not being able to meet my grade expectations. People try to make predictions come true when they believe that they have the strength to make it happen. At times, predictions just come true out of the blue.
Roneshua Baltimore
ReplyDeleteWell one situation I have had was once that my friend had told me that one of his cousin had like me. I mean at first I was sort of not interested in the whole situation because I didn’t think it was actually true. I tend to ignore what people tell me. Anyway I soon enough found out that he did like me. When it was first obvious I really thought “how could he know something like that? Probably because their family.” when I was told that honestly I started acting really mean to him! I mean he wasn’t my type at all and honestly he annoyed me. I really started completely making no compliments or answers towards his . I could really care less for what feelings he had but I’m not a person who could be mean for long. Eventually I had changed my mind and thought about giving him a shot so I started to act nice towards him. Me and him went out for a bit but had broken up. By then I had forgot what my friend had said. I was surprised when he told me that he was right but by then I didn’t care anymore. But I do think that some people try and make predictions come true because most predictions are things that they WANT to happen. Something that they have been working at but has actually have some motivation to strive toward it now . Most people don’t want to make effort unless they have a sure thing that they are going to get what they want. I mean I a realist so most of the time I don’t believe in fate anyway, I feel like you create your own life and YOU make it what you want it to be . NO ONE can tell you what your life is going to be and how its going to turn out. We cant see into the future so we don’t know and we could steer our lives into a different direction. I mean yeah ,sure, there are things that are inevitable but EVEN THOSE things can be changes or prevented.
~Zachary J. Borja
ReplyDeleteVincent Van Gogh is an example of how someone had their fate told to them about their career and was slowly affected by it. Since during the time when he was alive, his paintings weren't famous but recieved lots of criticism. Which is probably why he committed suicide. He was ahead of his time. And now his paintings are considered masterpieces.
When the people criticized his work, he would sometimes destroy the pictures/paintings. Or other times attempt to paint better. Which would count as attempting to change his fate. A person who he knew well, also didn't agree that his work was good either, his uncle. Who played a role in his life. But also his brother who supported him the whole way through. So the seperate opinions on his career made him believe that his work wasn't good enough so he also believed his fate as a failure was sealed. Which lead to depression, then suicide.
If I was in his position, I would never be satisfied with my work. Since I am rarely ever satisfied with anything I do. But I would know my fate like Vincent knew his, but I would at least attempt to change it. And if that didn't work, I would continue my work and find something more of worth to do.
This is free will influenced by fate. Which also works for the movie final destination.....
It all started on New Years Eve of 2010. I was in 8th grade at the time and was spending the night talking to my best friend. At that moment, she was begging me to help her get together with one of our guy friends. Being the great, supportive friend I am, I said yes and we put him on the phone line too. The thing about this guy is that he already liked her, my other best friend, and suprisingly me. But I had no feelings whatsoever for him so I thought it would be nice to help them get together. I talked to him for hours trying to see if he would actually ask her out. At the same time, we were both sharing our most embarassing childhood stories and making each other laugh. I had to get off the phone because of my phone curfew and I apologized to my bestie saying that he didn't want to be in a relationship at the moment, which was true. As I put the phone away my dad passed me and asked who was I talking to for so long. I told him it was my best friend and that I was trying to hook her up with this guy. My dad stared at me for a moment, which seriously scared me, then he said, "you should never try to hook people together because in the end you're gonna end up with the guy". I just laughed that off and told my dad that will never ever happen. Besides, they wont even let me date until I'm sixteen so I have nothing to worry about. But I guess fate had other plans. During the following month, that guy and I got closer and I started to notice that he was kind of, sort of cute. Then one day I realized that I liked him. But that didn't mean anything. It was just a crush. That same night I had a dream. I dreamt that he asked me out after school and I said yes. I woke up and laughed at the improbable dream. That day at school, there was a huge rumor going around that he was going to ask me out. That was when I got really scared and remembered my dream. Sure enough, he asked me out after school. It was very interesting and also weird because he said the exact same thing in the dream. He was even wearing the same clothes and he asked me out on the same spot too. Of course I said yes to him in a daze. I did confront him and ask him why he asked me out and not my other friends even though they liked him longer than I had. He confessed that he always liked me more and that was another reason why I couldnt get my friend and him together on New Years Eve. But that got me thinking. Was that really a dream or a glimpse of the future. Looking back at that moment in my life, I think that it was fate that we ended up together even though I had the freewill to say no to him.
ReplyDeleteNathan Balmes,
ReplyDeleteThere have been many times where people tell me that something is going to happen and it happens. Sometimes I think that the way someone tells another, what is going to happen then the individual starts to think about it even more. This may cause it to happen and make that individual act differently then how they normally would act. All this could be based on fate because the person doesn't mean to act this way, however they think about it too much which may cause it to happen.
Randy Pham
ReplyDeleteActually something predicted happened to me. My friend and I were sitting at Bancroft Middle School and he predicted that a cop would roll up in about 10 seconds. About 3 cops rolled up 2 motorcycle 1 car. At that moment i thought he was the descendent of god or som "BS" like that. About 5 minutes later he predicted the samething and it happened again. So that time I actually believed that he was god or he had a cop radar built into his brain. This event really didn't change my actions because I believe it was just a coincidence and he never dit it again. Alot of people try to make their predictions come true and because of that it is free will. Fate would mean whatever you do it will always lead to the same thing. But if you try to make it happen then it is free will because you are motivated to do so.
Steffon Williams...
ReplyDeleteThink that it could be a little bit of both free-will or fate. If I had to focus on just one it would be free will. I chose free will because we all have a choice to do what we want. Most of the times we choose what we want to do. Even though we have free will there is still fate. Fate is there and we as people tend to drift off to what we choose to do and then we drift back to fate every now and then. I also think that sometimes peoples choices of free will changes our fate or destiny.
Examples of free will would be like when we choose what we wear, eat, say or even what we do next. Fate doesn't choose those controllable things. I'm not saying that fate has nothing to do with life. That my point of veiw on fate or free will .
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ReplyDeleteMoises Rosales
ReplyDeleteAt one point in my sister’s life she was trying to have a baby with her significant other for about 1 year. They never stopped but she just couldn’t get pregnant. She goes to the doctors and doctors tell her that she is not able to have a baby. Tears go down, suffering for weeks just knowing the fact that she cannot have a baby. Arguments was a daily their daily routine ever since that day. They separated and went their own ways. A few weeks later she wakes up but not no normal morning that u go in the bathroom and brush your teeth, it was one of those that you sprint to the bathroom so u won’t throw up in the floor before you even get to reach the toilet. She goes to the store for a pregnancy test and believe it or not she’s pregnant. That right there I believe is fate.
Free will is taking matters into your own hands and setting your own destiny.
I sometimes believe that this may be your own opinion depending on the way you live or religion.
Denny Liu
ReplyDeleteMy mom once told me that a person on the street said that your baby would be rich, and so my mom gave me a chinese name that meant I was going to be rich. Although Im not rich yet I do have an ambition to become rich, thus taking BA. The fact that my name means im going to be rich probally did play a role in how I chose and decided take a certain path. I do believe in fate and people dont make predictions come true, although they can try, its all fate. People may think that they could do whatever they want and say its freewill, but is it really? What if fate was to make you think its freewill but it turns out you are continuing the path of fate. There is no freewill, you can think what you are doing is freewill but its fate.
Justin Diza
ReplyDeleteEver since since seventh grade, I have one received one C or even B- in that case. The story started in sixth grade. I just started to get used to sixth grade in San Leandro, because where I used to live sixth grade was still in elementary school. I was initially shocked, but it was covered by excitedness. I did pretty well in most classes (mostly A's in fact,) but in two classes I've got two C's. After receiving these grades my parents were shocked and disappointed (so was I).They also had a hint of intimidation. They said that I will never get a C or I'll never get anywhere in life. So during the second, third, and fourth quarter I've got got no C at all. During my seventh and eighth grade year I received no C's throughout the quarter.Also during my ninth and tenth grade I was so close to receiving a C but stayed at the borderline B(YAY.) I think that it was my parent's words of intimidation, state of shock, and disappointed that forced me to word really hard into avoiding that "C". To be honest that there words have rubbed off to me. Every time I get close to a C I get in a state of shock and disappointment. People always try to make predictions come true. Although, I don't think that fate has anything to do with this. I think that it is your freewill that allows you to solve your "prediction."
A couple of months ago I was messing with my brother but he didnt want to hit me because I would dominate him. He told me "Dude you're going to get beat up, watch, you play around too much." Later that day I had a soccer game and I was marking a guy who was faster then me so I sommetimes fouled him, but not because I wanted to fight him but so he wouldnn't score. I guess on a foul I committed on him made him mad since the ref didn't mark it and sticked me once stepped away and I didn't expect that then he sticked me again and they seperated us. I didn't try to get into a fight but I was doing actions that caused a fight. People do try to make predictions come true depending on what it is. That decides whether it is free will, fate, or neither.
ReplyDeleteMoe Ngungutau
ReplyDeletewhen I was in 8th grade my mom used to say to me, "we are going to be blessed with many good things in the future so work hard now and in the future it will all pay off." I thought that this was true but at the same time I wanted it to be true. Every thing that I would do I would remember what my mom said to me, and that gave me more confidence to be a better person in the future and in the things I pursue. For example when I was in 8th grade I was a all around good athlete and i worked hard for it to. I even did good in school. In my mind i kept thinking that this is fate and these things do happen for a reason, but for me it was for a good cause in helping my family. Sometimes i notice the things happening to me and I feel that fate is doing its job. It feels good when I know this wierd, but true thing called fate goes my way. Many times while I play sports I always ask for help from up above and I feel him helping me, because the outcome after the game or match or even a tournament is always satisfing to me. So I believe that fate is the reason why things happen to People.
Last year, I was barely beginning to ride fixed gear bikes, but as all who ride fixed gear know, they don't need brakes. That was my method of transportation and favorite hobby, so on one weekend,I woke up early, at 5am, because I had quite a few things to take care of that day. When my mom woke up, I was already dressed and ready to ride, but she told me that she had a dream that I got run over by a bright red car. She told me to put the brakes on the bike and wear a helmet, but of course... I didn't. So, around 12pm, I was riding from my aunties house to the barber shop. I was riding on e14, waiting for the light on the sidewalk. When the light said go, I started pedaling, and right as I'm in the middle of the crosswalk, a bright red Chevy Cobalt pulls up to the light. Without even looking, the driver hits the gas to make a wide right turn and runs me over! I lay flat on the hood and my bike went flying into the street, I roll off the hood and get up immediately to reach for the bike and get off the road. The driver says he's sorry, he didn't see me, blah blah blah... He parks inside a nearby parking lot and we converse about a way to not get the police involved so I don't get a ticket, and he doesn't get sued. We start negotiating a price for my broken rim. I get my money, he keeps driving like a maniac, and up to this day, I still haven't put brakes on my bike and am not planning on it. The end.
ReplyDeleteI don't believe in fate or destiny, I believe in coincidences and chance. You are not destined to succeed or fail, you either have the skills to succeed in life, you learn those skills, or you never gain them and you end up at rock-bottom. I obviously did not let "fate" change my mind or actions, I didn't do anything to change my habits. There's a lot of red cars, and a lot of reckless drivers; it was simply an accident.
So one day me and my friends were comming back from the park after school. As we were walking we passed one of our friends house and one of my friends predicted that he was going to be at school after as. We were sitting down in the stairs talking about chocolates and next thing we see pass is our friend and he comes up to us and started talking. I think this was free will because she just though it might happened and it actually did.
ReplyDeleteEmely Perez
ReplyDeleteI think that its all up to the person to think if its fate or free will.For example if somebody tells someone that they are going to lose 20 pounds, that person will get motivated and do everything to lose the puonds. Thats free will because the person is trying to lose the wight.Thats not fate. Fate would be like getting home and finding $100s in your pocket. thats fate you didnt plan to get $100s. You don't have to work for fate, but you have to work twice as hard for free will. Like Maya Angelou said, "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude." Thats free will in my eyes also.
During my summer vacation I had a chance to meet and spend some time with someone that I admired but never thought I would actually meet. Some of my friends have told me that one day I would be in a position to meet this person, and I actually did. After they told me this, I don’t believe my attitude or behavior changed, but for some reason I thought that they were right. A few weeks before going to visit my dad in Nevada I went to see the movie Eclipse. I really enjoyed the movie, especially, Kristen Stewart. I remember thinking how neat it would be to meet her in person. During my vacation, my dad surprised me with a visit from Kristen Stewart. She and some of her friends were staying at a hotel that he works for. It was so ironic, because I had just saw the movie the week before. I believe it was fate that this meeting took place.
ReplyDeleteConner Sturm
ReplyDeleteIt was back in seventh grade when i was at the peak of my running skills. I had already climb to the top of the ranks in the boys cross country division averaging within the top ten for every race. I had came in first at a race in John Muir and i was hoping for a second win at a race in Castro Valley. Among other things my dad told me before the race, he told me that it was no one's race but my own and that i had what it could take to win this.
With my toes perched on the starting line I awaited the starting gun to begin the race. When I heard it I shot off and quickly gained on my competitors, I began to restratigize this race in my head. I began to slow my pace only slightly. This particular course involved a big hill we had to run up so i saved my energy for that. While evryone was walking or slowly jogging i raced up that hill and made it to the top with only a handful of people in front of me. I began the descent on the course and eventually there was no one but a fellow bancroft racer in front. I said to hell with it and pushed forward over coming him and placed first on that very difficult course.
Darren Nguyen
ReplyDeleteIn wrestling or any other sports a lot of predictions are made. Some may come true and some will not. In sports if you were to work hard you would get something out of it but if you didn't you wouldn't get anything out of it. That's where predictions becoming true or not will take place.
But when i start my wrestling match and i'm down by some points my coach would always tell me that i would win the match by either pinning the dude or catching up and passing him by points. And when hes telling me or motivating me i would always want to try to make it happen. And it would always help me win my matches.so i think people would tend to make these predictions happen depending on if its benefiting you and my opinion is these predictions are usually freewill.
Will Connell said,
ReplyDeleteThere has been a time in my life when someone predicted a improbable event that did end up happening later. One day a few of my friends and I go up and explore a little forest near my house on the San Leandro hills. Its pretty nice up there and can be a pretty peaceful walk. We are walking on this path and my eye spots a worm on the ground but I don't see it as any importance to me. But falling me was my friend Jaime and he say "Hey look a worm" and he picks it up. "I'll bet you two won't eat it" he says after picking it up. I don't want to eat it so i just sway my head showing I don't really care. Then my friend Nolen grabs the worm and eats it! See if he never have mentioned the worm then that would of never happen. And even if Nolen saw the worm before Jaime I don't think he would of just ate it. He only ate it to prove Jaime wrong. It was his free will to do that. He had the power to say yes or no when he held up the worm. I don't believe in fate. I think you have the power to make your life what you want it to be and not that it was already said that your life will be one way. The only fate that i know of is that at the end of everybodies life there is death, that is fate.
Aidan said...
ReplyDeleteA time in life when somebody said something improbable would happen was when my father told me football was a dangerous sport. I didn't really listen to him since it was my first time playing football. He kept warning me about various injuries I could recieve and told me to keep my "Head on a Swivel." I didn't listen to him. I was much more focused on playing and learning the game. Time passed and I played various positions from linebacker to running back to even special teams. The day I should have kept my, "head on a swivel" was the last game of my freshman season. I was on kick return and I recieved the ball. While I was running I didn't look everywhere to run, so I ended up getting hit facemask to facemask against the opponent. After that hit, I recieved a concussion. I should have kept my, "head on a swivel" that game. I didn't realize that I could get that seriously injured because I was healthy the whole season.The fact that my father said that didn't change me til the next season, but I should have listened to him. People don't make predictions come true, it's just an act of coincidence. In fact I believe it's just free will and coincidence that make the prediction come true. The people make it the prediction possible because their free will allows them to do it, while the predictions are just coincidence.
Eric Friedlund said...
ReplyDeleteThere was a time back in Kindergarten where I was just 2'4" and literally the smallest student in my class. All the other children towered over me when I talked to them face to face, or stood in line to go back to class. I was aware at the time that I was small, and it hit me hard when someone made fun of me for it; I couldn't do anything tall people could do, and the teased me for it. They always told me I would never grow, and I would stay small forever, which made me sad. My mum talked to me, saying "You will grow, in time. You just have to wait, and you'll be bigger than most of your friends." It felt improbable, because, one, I already had the mindset of being small forever, but then again, I always trusted my mum's opinion. But the one thing she told me that would make me taller was actually exercise!
As I grew older, and was teased more than ever, I started exercising more often than usual, and ran faster as I trained. I soon became the fastest runner in my class by 5th grade. Then towards 7th grade, I started gymnastics, and began building muscle, and height, but not much of it. I could tell I was getting a tiny bit taller, but not as I wanted. I thought about what my mum said: bigger. Bigger may not be size or mass, but who you become. I became the bigger person by being myself, rather than being a two-story monster.
There has been many situations that someone told me something bad was going to occur and it did. So one of the many incidents was when my brother dislocated his shoulder. He had dislocated it last year before winter break. One of his friends actually two of them found it funny and kept bringing it up and laughing. My brother was getting annoyed that they thought it was funny and said that something bad was going to happen to both of them. One of them sprained his ankle over winter break. But the second person had it worse. On the day of the homecoming rally during the senior run she thought she just twisted her ankle but
ReplyDeleteIt was worse and she had to have surgery. This was worse than what happened to my brother. In the end he got the last laugh and it was fate. -amany jama
Finau Mataafa
ReplyDeleteI remember when I was little this one lady told me that I was going to have eight kids. When she told me that i didn't really act different because i was little so having kids wasn't really on my mind. i think people do make prediction just for fun, but i really don't believe in this prediction stuff. So i think this is free will because everyone decide what they want to do but not only that you have to do what you decide action speaks louder then words.
One day in our freshman day me and my friends got out of school early. We decided to go and eat and afterwards we decided to go to the park.
ReplyDeleteAs we were walking back to school from the park my friend was joking around as we passed my friends house and said oh he knows we are here and he knows we are going to be at the school and he is going to come. We telling her that she was crazy because how was she going to know that. When we got to the school we were siting on the stairs waiting for our parents to pick us up and all of a sudden our friend comes walking our direction and he was talking to us. And my friends were freaked out because all what my friend said when we were in front of my friends house was true. And we were all surprised.
There was one time that I was in kindergarten and my teacher told me that i was going to be a good drawer and now I am. I think that the main thing that was, is fate. It was crazy and when I talk to my teacher she says that" I told you that you will become a great drawer by your creative style as a child." Now I think of that every time I draw a great picture of Timmy Turner from the cartoon hit The Fairly Odd Parents.I think that it is fate because I have always been able to draw.
ReplyDeleteThere was this one time my mom said we were going to move into a new house and for a while we didn't then all of a sudden she had a dream of her walking down the hallway of our new house then later after that week maybe or something like that we ended up going to the new house to look at it then my mom and dad said that we would take the house and we ended up moving into the house and we like it we have family fun time in the house and we play video games and we just have a lot of fun together i think it was free will because we kinda wanted the house and we had fun picking out the rooms.
ReplyDeleteMarquis Corpuz said
ReplyDeleteOnce in my life my girlfriend told me that i would soon be spending dollars a day just to see her and at first i was seeing her budget free biking back and forth to hayward,ca. as time went by i started to become more and more lazy on making bike trips so i started taking b.a.r.t. which was $3.50 round trip and i went about three times per week. now that i look and thought about it. i was wrong about denying what i would be doing just to see her, i don;t think it was weird that she somewhat predicted it. i just think it was a coincidence.
Fate to me is real and in life whatever happens, happens. also free will does too exist because i do have the choice to do what i like and no matter what i choose it is always going to be my fate. fate will go into play and i am casted into it and it's just the way it goes even the choices i make goes towards my fate.
Michelle Pierre
ReplyDeleteThere was once a time in my life when someone told me that something improbable would happen and it did. It was in freshman year when I really liked this guy, but I was way too shy to tell him. This guy friend that I had was a senior at the time and he was shy himself. But he was telling me that I should tell him and that the sooner I do it, the better. I was telling him that I can’t do it and that I’m shy and he said. “Ok, but don’t be upset if he has a girlfriend in a month or so.” I was in denial of it and then before I knew it, he had a girlfriend about a month later.
Obviously, I didn’t exactly act different for this prediction. If I was to act different, I would’ve just told him. For some reason, I was acting a little more different to him like I didn’t like him and did that instead. But at the same time, you can say that I did act differently.
I believe that people try their very best to make predictions come true. When people hear something from a fortune teller, they will do anything to make it come true. Also, when people hear something about what a scientist predicted, we can all be easily gullible to it. For example, we all keep saying that the world will end in 2012 :O
This could all be part of both freewill and fate. Some things were just meant to happen. But at the same time, we decide for it all to happen. We can control life the want we want to, but at the same time we have absolute no control. When the big earthquake on the Hayward Fault struck, that will be all part of fate. But an example of freewill is when people want to work hard to get into college to get a Bachelor’s Degree and make more money! $
A really strange incident that has happened to me is when my boyfriend told me to be careful when I go to my softball game. I didn’t take it to heart and I was like yeah yeah as if I’m going to get hurt. I never injure myself anyways so why worry, right? Turns out, I end up spraining my ring finger during the warm up before the game. It swelled up and I had to go get it checked out at the doctors’ that night. Sucks, because I had to sit out and I was the starting hitter too! I’m pretty sure this was an act of fate because I didn’t intend on this to happen. It was unexpected and I didn’t do anything to inflict this on myself. Freewill is something like, pretending to hurt myself to not play. I choose to do that so I get my way. But something like hurting myself from a pop up fly was unintentional. I believe more in fate than in free will.
ReplyDeleteJust about a couple of months ago my aunt's friend, who is a palm and face reader, told me to donate blood or I'll be associated with a car accident. As freaked out as I was I tried to be cautious, but I didn't really listen to her about donating blood. After a few weeks I completely disregarded what she had said to me. Living freely and thinking with no consequences ahead of me, I went ahead and rode with my aunt to work. When we stopped at a stop light my aunt turned around to look at her child. Then she turned around and she looked forward she sped up, but the car in front of her suddenly stopped. Soon as she noticed she stomped on the brakes, but it didn't help. Her car unfortunately hit the bumper of the man's truck. I was in a state of shock of discovering what came true and what kind of situation I was in. This was my very first minor car accident.
ReplyDeleteI believe that depending on the prediction people would act on how they perceive it. Especially the superstitious and overly worried about their lives kind of people. Usually if people gets a bad prediction they would try to be cautious and do whatever they can to stop that particular prediction. But if it's a good prediction they'll do whatever it takes to have the prediction to come true, especially if it's to fulfill a life-long wish.
Fate is something we can't control and freewill is. People use freewill to try to turn around their fates. But I think most of these things like predictions happening or not are fate. Fate has it's own course. No matter how hard people try to drive away or in to it, it'll still lead you back to the same life decision that has been made for you. Fate is a peculiar thing, it has its way around us. We try to figure it out, but we never do. Oddly enough it's always the opposite of what we expect,wish for, and come by to. Fate is our unending maze of life.
Dustin Piring
ReplyDeleteAbout maybe a year ago, i was at a bowling alley with my family. We went to the arcade. I quickly went to play the game stacker which is a game where you have to stack blocks up to the top, once that is achieved, you would win an awesome prize. The game is very difficult, especially at the last block. After many tries i decided to quit and stop wasting my mone. My cousin immediateley told me to play again because he guarenteed that i will finally win. I then played one more time, and as i got to the final block i said it will cheat me again but my cousin said that i would win, and as i pressed the button it immediately said i won. It was so weird how my cousin just told me i was going to win when i thought i wasnt.
I really dont think it was fate because i thought i just got lucky. I was thinking that it wasnt my destiny to win. I guess i finally pressed the button at the right time. Well at least i won a killer prize, thats all that matters.
I remember a while back , when i was about 11 years old . I was at my grandmother's house kicking back and thinking about this basketball game i had coming up . i needed to get my mind off of my next game , so i grabbed my ipod & started listening to music . As the song came to a stop , i began to hear this weird voice in my head , saying " you're gonna have a great game & score over 16 points " . I began to think to myself " What in the world ??? " . Then this day finally came , game day . As soon as the tip-off started , i jumped as high as i could and hit the ball to my friend , mario . He passed the ball back to me and i drove to the basket and scored our first two points with ease . By the end of the game , we ended up winning 42-35 and i also had a spectacular score of 19 points all by myself .
ReplyDeleteI really don't know whether if this special moment in my life happened because of free will or fate , because i had this weird rush of energy buzzing through my body that day . I also don't know because it wasn't anyone specific who told me that i would have an excellent performance , but it was a random voice in my head .
Was it me , saying this to myself without saying it to myself ? Or just a voice of the unknown ? Till this day , i have no idea but this was a very weird moment in my life because i never used to be the type of guy to score over 16 points in a basketball game .
Martha del Toro
ReplyDeleteAs growing up my sister always said that I was going to grow up and be like her she would always say I see myself in her she going to be very bad. And she was right I mean I’m not proud of it or nothing but I did a lot of mistakes that she did when she was like my age. I regret it a lot but like they say you learn from your mistakes and I did to this day I hadn’t misbehave I’m trying to change a little by little. To this day she still says it but now I try to avoid myself from getting in trouble and going in the wrong direction is time to do well and behave like the daughter my parents want to have. I think some people do try to make predictions come true like the people that read your palm and all that they call it with their mouth so as they as they speak it they try to make it come true. I believe this is fate because it all depends in what the person believes.