Tuesday, February 5, 2013
English II Fate & Free Will
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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Have you ever had someone make a prediction and sooner or later it happen to you ? Well unfortunately it only happen to me a few times . I am going to share with you a prediction someone made and it all happened. It was all when I was in middle school where I saw a female there that caught my attention to the max where I said to myself I need her in my life and want her to be mine. Me and this female didn't know eachother we were complete strangers with one another. One of my good friends said , " Watch yall going get together soon and go out for a long time". So one day I was outside my class because my teacher had sent me out for having a bad attitude. This is where it all happens when I was sent outside the class the girl of my dreams was coming down the hall way coming towards me. She passed right by me she gave me a look and those beautiful eyes of hers made me say something to her. "Hi, how you doing" I said. she responded,"am doing good" and keep walking. I told her ,"Can I have hug you going leave me hanging" then she said,"I don't even know you" and I told her back ," well let's get to know eachother", I responded. She smiled at me, her smile was the most beautifulest thing I've ever saw . Since that day we were getting to know eachother and had lots in common. Throughout time we started to get closer and closer and apparently one day we got together. We went out for a year and like a month till I had to do what I had to do. My friends prediction came true , I enjoyed every minute with her and being with her for that long and then breaking up some would say it was a waste of time but with me it wasn't a waste of time at all. People can some how make predictions come true depending on what the prediction is about. Some would do all what it takes to make the prediction that was said happen to the person that it was said to, also I think this is fate
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The prediction of my life. I was talking to my friend one day about how funny this guy talk and i really wanted her to hear his voice. That afternoon i saw him walking outside and we approach him. I said "Hi", we all talked and i asked him a few questions about the game i missed that last weekend. As me and my friend leaving he ask for my number, i gave it to him. After we walked off and my friend said watch he's going to be your boyfriend, i say no i could see us being friends maybe going to parties together. Weekends after me and the guy started hanging out, getting to know each other and the vibe was great! When she told me that he would be my boyfriend i tried to keep my distant and just be friendly towards him as i could but that eventually made us date. Overall my friend prediction was correct, i didn't to make the prediction come true it just came and i think fate brought us together. Fate chose who come in your life and you freewill chose who walks out.
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Don't you think you make your own decisions ? Don't you think it's your fault if you mess up and do something bad? If you think that your probably believe in free will. Free will is when you believe that what you do is completely controlled by your self.
I believe this is true because you make your own decisions. What you do and say will effect how you will shape out in the future. Also, if you do something bad its your own fault you did that it's you making the decisions not someone else making them for you.
You know the saying you can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink. If someone gets a chance to do something but don't they don't because they have free will. Don't you think it's someone's fault if they mess up? Don't you think it will sound stupid if every one in jail started saying the reason they are in there is because of faith. If someone makes a mistake they pay for it because they did it under their FREE WILL.
Veronica
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When someone dies , what is the first thing the family say ? it was fate, or god wanted i t to happen. yet in some religions they say god gives us choices and we get to choose with our freewill to go the good or the bad path. so what is it? what do you think we have ? fate, or freewill
I was confused when i first thought about it. I believe in fate, I have seen so many things that happen that has proven this to me, for example: our car broke down right in front of a store exactly 1 minute later a shoot out happened and destroyed the car in front of us. The car was a truck 4x4 so only the tires got shot and the lower part but, if it had been us, our car is much shorter it would have defenetly hit us all. Theres many more occasions like this about fate but then again , me being a regious person i believe god does want some things to happen yet other things choices but one may not know it.
There are many people that believe in freewill and there are many that don't. I for one believe in fate. what do you believe?
Has anyone ever told you that something would happen to you and in the end it actually ended up happening? This unfortunately has never happened to me before, at least not that i can remember. But something like this situation did happen to my older sister Roxana. One day her friend Veronica noticed that her phone fell constantly from her back pocket, and she told her that if she kept on putting it in her back pocket, that it would fall in the toilet. My sister of course knowing that she is very clumsy, did not care what Veronica told her. Instead, she continued her bad habit of putting her phone in her back pocket. Until one day, while at my cousins house, Roxana decided to go to the bathroom, when out of a sudden we heard a scream. Apparently she dropped her phone in the toilet on accident, while it was flushing! To make matters worse, it turns out that her phone was small enough to fit in the toilet drain. In the end she learned her lesson even though she was very upset and disappointed.
ReplyDeleteIn continuation, i think that people try to make predictions come true only if it is a positive thing. For example, if something good would come out of the prediction, then of course anyone would try to make it happen. But if the prediction was not a good one then i do not think anyone would want it to be true. Therefore, I believe in fate because things happen for a reason (good or bad) and no one can control that.
Reality is the ever changing turn table that will never stop spinning. It has been altered, readjusted, reversed, and reshaped by the humanities perspective of it. Unexplicable things cause fear in some people and a curiosity in others, which leads to different paths those people take. For me, I am the curious kind. I love seeing things that I have no clue what they are about and have the aptitude to find out what it is and what's its purpose. Over the past fifteen years that I have existed many people have seemed to know who I am. "I know you'll be a great leader one day." "I have a feeling in my gut that your going to do something extraordinary." These have been the things repetively told to me, and although they are nice thoughts I choose not to believ the surmises of theses people. They aren't a metaphysical being to which I can only dream of nor are they my creators so they do not know what I am to become. However, their words do have a peculiar effect on me. I ponder the meaning of their words and I have a feeling of gratification but then ten minutes later it has a completely different feeling effect. I start to think about how untrue and fake they are to say what they can not back up and suddenly try to do the reverse. I won't try to be like the hardcore person , but i'll try to do what I want to become what I want, not because people have predicted a positive outcome for me in the future. I do know that what they have predicted has not came true yet. Unfortunately, many people do try to make predictions come ture or avoid them depending on if it's bad or good. They belive that since they are born with free will they can just will it to happen, but they end up making that prediction haplen not truly knowing if they want it or not. The predictions that are said to us play in our mind like a broken record, that continues to taint our mind ad they are played. This is indeed fate however it does not mean that fate cannot be changed by someone. My mother has always told me that it is you who controls your fate and your destiny and from what I have experienced so far in my life this saying holds true. When people are in a tight spot or are i trouble they honestly don't have any clue what their move is going to be and they look towards hope. Hope is what they lack and they figure their fate is set but it is not. You can still change your fate it is all based on what you do. Will you grab life by the reigns and pave your course on the empty canvas or will u let life carve you into another stone textile ln the floor? Is it up to you? Completely. Will you be able to do it? In reality, only a few do.
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ReplyDeleteHas it ever come to you that when you make a prediction or a sudden though comes up and happens? Well for most people this has happen; ask your self is this freewill or fate. Many people may believe is freewill or its possible it could be fate there’s many different side of the story for anyone really sometime this involves religion because this impacts people belief many times.
As my point of view I believe most things are because of fate and I speak of this because this has happen in my life. I predicted my cousin was going to break his arm I had a vision and this vision and feeling gave me the thoughts to tell him not to go out or something bad was going to happen. However he was questioning my thoughts so he went out skating and just all the sudden he falls and breaks his arm. How can this happen and I to see that this was going to happen to him? This made me think that this was fate that he had to break his arm just by going out to skate and me to see it before like a déjà vu. Many people have there belief to why this had to happen but for me by my religion makes me thing this was fate for some reason things happen to everyone there always a return towards it such as something later will come out good from it or for something bad that has been done that’s why this came back to you. Basically is based on you really believe in.
Well my main point is that I believe in more in fate than freewill because in many religions you got to have fate in a god or saint since I am catholic. It doesn’t make a person different everyone is unique everyone has there own fate and freewill. There might be things that they experience and we don’t but there freewill or fate takes them always in life as they believe in such things in life.
Lizel San Juan
ReplyDeleteHas someone ever predicted a certain aspect of your future that sounded out of reach, but you didn’t realize it had taken place right in front of you and you had accomplished it? One event similar has happened to me, and that was when my biology teacher last year told me I would do well in his class and subsequently his AP Bio class the following year.
In the first semester of 9th grade, I performed terribly in Biology Honors. Within the very second week of school, my grade dropped from an A+ to a D-. Not only did I assume that I would be able to get away with laziness in that class as I did with my others, but I also forgot to complete the back side of our first test. I was so distraught and embarrassed because I had never received that low of a grade in any class before that I considered switching to a different Biology Honors teacher. Nevertheless, I stayed. I pushed myself past my learning boundaries, allowed myself to actually absorb the information, and ended the first semester with an 89%. When the time to pick our classes for the following year came, I wanted to write down AP Biology because it would’ve helped me in my dream career of becoming a pharmacist, but I knew that my teacher only chose students who received an A in his class for it; Therefore, I knew I was no longer eligible. Yet when I asked him which science he recommended for me, to my surprise, he told me he would let me take his AP Biology class next year. He saw both my laziness and my potential to succeed if I didn’t possess the former characteristic. That second semester, I received an A in his class.
Flash forward to this school year; I’m in AP Biology like I hoped to be and I’m getting a weighted B in his class. My teacher even admitted that he was glad I was taking it. I did indeed have to change my habits for this prediction to happen, otherwise my laziness would’ve landed me in Chemistry or Physics, or even obligate me to retake Biology Honors, and none of those options appealed to me. And just like me, I think other people also try to make predictions come true, sometimes accidentally when trying to prevent it from happening or intentionally because it is something they do want. It is both free will and fate; Whether they succeed or not is their fate but the steps to get there is done by their free will.
Melissa Chavez
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The fact that a prediction may or may not decide your fate sounds impossible but has happened multipple times to countless people which makes fate a popular assumption. I have had some experience with fate and i also know some of my friends have, too. Usually someone who I know give me a prediction related to my academics and then the prediction comes true sooner or later but I never observe any behavior changes because what I do that makes the prediction come true is what I consider my normal behavior which means I am not influenced by the prediction. I might keep the prediction in mind but i don't neccessarily think it affects my actions. I believe in events happening because of fate mostly because my mother has always said ever since I was little that happens to someone is because God decides on your fate or she would say "only God knows". She was implying that it was fate. I also believe myself that it is fate only because of experience and what others tell me. One example was when my friend told me was that she went to a fortune teller and that what that person told her had mostly came true. Also, when my brother was still a baby my mother and I were walking along the street going to the store in the afternoon. We were going to cross the street but we were still waiting for some cars to stop. An elderly woman stopped to cross right next to us and then glanced at my little brother. She tapped my mothers shoulder and asked her what my brothers name was and what year he was born. My mother told her and the elderly woman smiled and said, "This little child will be very skilled at math when he starts school." She then left and didn't cross the street. Today, my brother is the smartest at math in his class and finishes his math homework with ease. i believe that was fate when the elderly woman gave us her prediction. From that moment on I had a strong belief in fate because of that prediction. I also have sometimes made careless predictions to some known people that have then eventually happened without the slightest change in behavior so i strongly suggest that fate is the cause.
Personally, I have not experienced the moment when someone tells me that something that seems improbable is going to happen, and then it happens, so all of my opinions will be based on a third-party perspective. I think when we are given a prophecy, a prediction of something that is destined to happen, or something of the sort, we linger toward it or away from it based on how we feel about the predetermined outcome. If the prediction is to meet your true love, we would instinctively want that to happen and try to force this premonition to happen. However, if the prediction was an untimely death, we may not want this event to happen.
ReplyDeleteThat aside, people do try to make their predictions come true by doing things they would think would encourage their prediction to come true. An example of this would be the television show That’s So Raven, where Raven gets a vision of the future and, if it’s a good vision, will do everything in her power to make her vision come true. The actions she takes does help the vision come true, but in a way that was unexpected.
Trying to make predictions come true would not be JUST fate or JUST free-will, but a mixture of both – my belief is “Fate cannot exist without free will.” If our fate was to, for example, become a Hollywood star, the actions we take would inch us closer and closer to this destined fate. But if we decided to give up and become something like a fast-food worker, our fate would not be able to be reached and we would never reach our destined fate. It is sort of like a math equation, where fate is the dependent variable (Y) and free will is the independent variable (X). Depending on what happens with our free will (X), our fate can be altered (Y). An example of “Fate cannot exist without free will” is the tragedy of Romeo & Juliet. These “star-crossed lovers” fate was to be just that – star-crossed lovers. Fate was working against their love, but if Juliet had made a better plan, or if Friar Lawrence hadn’t given her the potion vial, or if Romeo had waited just a bit more to commit suicide, the ending of the story may have been changed drastically (of course, that would have never happened because it is a tragedy and those usually don’t have happy endings). Point is, the actions we take and the things we do can affect the outcome we are meant to have.
Juny Nguyen
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There has been multiple occasions when someone predicted that something would happen to me. Not every time did the prediction come true. The fact that i was cautiously aware that something could happen, made me react different to my surroundings. People act according to what they want to happen. if they to pass a test then they would study when they usually wont, or if they want to fail then they wont study when they usually would. People on there own free will can control there life so that they can live a life they want to live.
Predictions are just words that people tell you, they never actually happen on their account. There has been multiple times where people have told me that something will happen. On the flip side, there's always going to be the inevitable. If I were to split up life into a percentage, only about 1% of your day is predetermined. The rest is all up to you to decide. Not all of those things have come true yet. Eventually, I think that I can make myself what I want to be. I believe that there is a special combination between choices and destiny. In a way, you set yourself up for your own destiny, therefore making it impossible for something NOT to happen. But I am always going to be a strong believer in free will and choices. Although despite all my freedoms, my choices are limited as a minor in today's society.
ReplyDeletePredictions are just like a weather report. Sometimes they are fairly accurate, but others are way off the charts. If I followed every single horoscope or listened to every legend, I would be disappointed because most of them wouldn't occur. People sometimes believe in everything they hear without questioning its truth, I think that that is a weakness in our daily society. I wouldn't mind finding my own path because nobody should be able to tell me, "I told you so" after something happens to me.
I think that having a choice is vital for everyone to have, regardless of the situation. I have seen too many opportunities come and go in the recent months. In order for anyone to change their life, they need to make the right choice every single time. If not, then fate will just carry them away from their goals.
When becoming an adult, I think people make a huge leap across into becoming an older individual. It might not be immediate or intentional, but it happens to almost everyone. Your character is determined by your actions and thoughts, but fate the end result of those put together. When I am going to eventually move out of my home and go to college, I am going to be self dependent on my own choices. Without my parents following me wherever I may turn, I will be able to see what life is really all about.
Free will isn't just about having the ability to choose your own path. It also will affect those around you. If you choose to become a friend of someone else, they might feel the same way as you do. There is no way to actually predict who you're going to marry, how many kids you're going to have, or how long you'll live. But there is only one thing in life that we all have in common. There will never have the same opportunity twice in life. We have all experienced this truth, but few realize that they can go against the grain and make things happen for themselves.
Adam Warner
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Meryl Cantoria
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, I think people create their own fate through their choices and everyday life decisions. Growing up in a religious Christian family, I was once a strong God believer. Everything I think I do is God's will or I was meant to do it. The belief that my everyday life is consisted of fate remained throughout my childhood. For example, the people I meet everyday means something for my future became a consistent belief throughout my childhood. As I become mature, the way I think did too. The idea of God was replaced by the idea that people are into religion because they needed moral and support from someone to protect themselves. The more I am exposed to science, the more I became distant to my religion. Fate was also one of them. As a kid, I grew up thinking that everything I do is fate and that I am destined to be who I am right now. But as I start experiencing more events, I started to realize that everything I do comes from my own decisions and there is nothing related to God or any supernatural powers. Freewill replaced fate.
Curiosity hit me when me and my friend passed by a sign that says 'Psychic Reader' bolded in bright neon lights near our school while heading towards Tapioca Express. Instead of buying drinks for ourselves, we entered the psychic store. The fee was $10 for a palm reading for each person; although expensive, it was worth it. On my left palm, the psychic reader told me that I will get in to a good college which gave me confidence. This will either motivate me or not. A part of me is saying, "Oh I will get into a good college anyways so why should I try hard in school." And another part of me is saying, "Yes, I will get into a good school therefore I will study hard." Of course if I would like the prediction to happen, therefore I'm going to make it true even without the prediction itself. In the future, if I either go to a good college or not it all depends on my choices and decisions and that in order to achieve something high, I have to work hard.
Even if the prediction becomes real, I will still think that it isn't fate and it is all due to free will that will make up my future.
Was there ever a time where a person or something predicted my future or determined the outcome or not. Well yes and I live with it each day, and it also opened my mind to my view of the world actually. So when I was younger some particular person at my school when I was 5 told me my parents would split. I couldn't believe it, they seemed as happy as could be within my eyes. But the more I thought about it the more I believed it would happen. This caused me to smile more thinking it would possably help. Nothing I did different helped the matter and it just eventually happened around that time which put me in a total shock for a large period of my life. This wasn't a prediction I would like to have but it happened. Over time I've noticed people who think and set there mind to something they want they eventually get it. They either work towards that with there free will creating there fate. In the end we among ourselves create our furture our fate are well-being but this is all caused by free will. The ability to think its possable is free will, and when it happens or takes place you already formed your fate from the ghecko. So yes I believe in free will and also fate, those kinda things form the things around me as well.
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ReplyDeleteAlthough I have never experienced a time when somebody told me that something improbable would happen in my life, I have seen somebody go through this experience. People predicted that my uncle would get into UCSF's dental school and he didn't think that he was going to get in because getting into that school was very difficult. He worked his hardest, which took years and years of trying to get good grades, passing tests, and studying, after a long time of working his butt off, he finally got accepted into dental school trying to pursue his dreams of becoming a dentist. I do believe predictions can come true even if you believe it or not. People may act differently after being told a prediction, they may act as if they want it to come true or if they don't want it to come true and try to avoid it and not bother even trying to make it come true. Some people would want their predictions to come true because it might be something that they've been dreaming for a long time and they'd be willing to do anything for it, even if it takes days, months, or years to do so. In my opinion, I do believe that predictions come from freewill because people are trying their hardest to make it come true on their own. When you want something you have to work hard for it, you cannot always wish for things and for it to come true all the time.
The fact that people make predictions and sometimes come true are a combination of both fate and free will, in my opinion. I think that because its the way i view it, others have different opinions but my reason is that this has happened in my life because the reasons the predictions are thought of are based on logic. although, i support free will more than i support fate. last year on my freshmen year while school soccer tryouts were going on, i wanted to be that one freshmen that made the varsity team. when i first found out that the coach really had a thing for quick players that were light on their feet and were agile, i wanted to impress him in order to make varsity. i had some friends telling me that with speed, making varsity would be easier, so therefore i didnt hesitate to run full speed on the sprint test for tryouts. i didn't want to be over confident with sprinting because i was a sophomore running against jrs and seniors. it turns out i won, bearly, but i won. the coach mentioned before the first day of soccer tryouts that the fastest player on tryouts was going to make varsity no matter what and i got the chance to prove it. i think that my friend's predictions helped out a lot during tryouts because i gave it my all. that's how i think free will happens. i would say that a time of fate in my life was predicted in my height. I'm obviously really short compared to most people my age. while in elementary, my growth sprout began a year, maybe two or even three before most boys in my classroom. my uncle from Mexico said that most guys that start a growth sprout at an early age usually don't grown as much as a guy with a normal growth sprout. thats what i call fate and it became true, im only 5 feet & 5 inches!
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ReplyDeleteI believe in fate because my belief is that God has everything planned and that he knows what’s going to happen or he plans it. I also think that people only try to have their or someone else’s predictions come true if they want it to happen. I say predictions are someone’s opinion about somebody’s life and what they want to happen for them. For the thing that happened in my life, it wasn’t me who had the prediction, it was actually my mother regarding the prediction about me. When my mother was pregnant with me , they said I would be a boy. Ultra sounds still said I was a boy and my mom even had a baby shower and everything was blue and boy toys. Everybody was so excited about her having a boy but my mom still was set on saying she was having a girl. On November 2nd , 1997 , when I came , they said it’s a girl. People were shocked and appalled that I wasn’t a boy. Since you cant change the sex of a baby , that made the prediction improbable but with fate , I was meant to be the girl I am today and not the son my parents were going to name Semaj .
I think predicting something can be judged by facts or educated guesses know can predict the future like I have a couple of experinces like when people told me that I couldn't predict the future of the super bowl or I could't do anything but I think only you can control your path or destiny or future or what ever you want to call it. Some people think they know everything because they want to hear themselves talk or they think they know everything. My advice to people who reads this don't let anyone tell you you what you can accomplish in life only you can determine what you can do
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I believe in fate; whatever happens is because it was suppose to. You can predict what might or might not happen, but in the end it'll be fate that chooses. I think that your choice is a part of fate and what becomes of it. A few years ago my aunt told me i shouldn't trust a really good friend of mines, who was almost like family. Even though we were good, good friends she told me i could never trust her entirely. I never thought really of it because i didn't undertsand why she would say such a thing about my friend. Then on my 11th birthday i received tons of money. When i first counted it, it was $800 dollars,the second time i counted it and its was $740. I thought my dad took it to buy some more food or whatever they needed, so i didn't mind it. The next day i asked my parents if they took some money from what i recieved, but they said no. wWhen i counted it, my mom, and my best friend and i were there. My aunt suspected my best friend, but i couldnt do that. She was my best friend, she'd never do that to me, i thought But after that we planned to go to Discover Kingdom and out of nowhere she came out with $65, i asked where she got it from she said her mom gave it to her. I knew right then and there that she was lying, just the look on her face made me know it was her. I confronted her about it and after telling my parents she finally admitted it. I think fate was what made my aunt tell me i cuoldn't trust her. She ouwldnt just say anything out of the ordinary, i think it was meant for her to tell me that my best friend and i weren't going to last. I don't think its a prediction. Predictions are guesses; something that you THINK what might happen. Fate is something that happens for a reason, either good or bad without anyone thinking about it. I believe in fat because things happen for a reason, but you will never know why.
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ReplyDeletePredictions can be given anywhere, at any time. They can be just a random statement or comment someone makes about your future that comes true, or it can be from a physic that won’t come true. But how the prediction becomes true answers the question of if it’s fate or free will. For example, someone can predict that a person might obtain $1,000,000, and the person really does a week later. But that person may have made the prediction come true by stealing from the bank, thus making it free will. But if the person got lucky and won the lottery and won the $1,000,000, then this is fate. Predictions can also change the way a person acts. If an important person was predicted that they would get assassinated, they would become more careful and the security around them will become stronger. If that person still gets killed, then its fate.
No one ever told me something that later happens, but predict that it will happen one day. I, personally, don’t believe in predictions, most people refer predictions as logical assumptions, or educated guesses. In my opinion, predictions are things that will happen in the future, but you never thought that it will happen. Things happen based on a person’s free will, things won’t just happen just because it’s your fate, but what you do will become your fate. Fate is something you cannot prevent, no matter what you do to avoid it. For example, it is a person’s fate to live, survive, and die; but how a person goes through these stages is their own free will.
I honestlty really believe in in free will fate i really created by us we can make fate into reality be using free will of course sometimes people are born natural to do something that doesnt really make it fate its more of talent. some people think that others got to were they are beacuse of fate everyone can do anything as long as they are capble and as long as they put there mind to I strongly believe that anyone can do anything that they put there minds to and try to do they can acheive that goal.
ReplyDeleteI do believe that when people tell others something it really affects the way they behave weither negative or positive I really belive that most people really dont understand how much there words and what they can have a tremendous effect on people and what there future can turn out. I believe that peoples words can really effect the way peoples fate comes out. Nobody has ever really told me anything that really effects my lif e in a way that it made me change my perspective on life or anything like that.
But other that think that fat is real might argue that you will always do what you are ment to do and that if your fate is that you should not listen and let fate control you.
Jessica Ortiz
ReplyDeleteI think everything happens because of faith,even though i haven't had anything crazy happen to me, like someone predicting something was going to happen to me, but i have heard one of my friends telling my other friend that she was going to start liking this boy she really doesn't like at all, and she started telling her all these predictions that were going to happen to her, but my friend thought she was like crazy, because i mean why would she like a boy she really doesn't like, she thought it would be impossible. Eventually towards the middle of the year, she did eventually start liking the boy she never thought she would like, she was shocked because she just thought it wasn't going to happen. When she told our friend that told she started liking the boy, she just said she was right along, she knew she was going to start liking him because the person you least expect to like you end up liking. So I think everything happens because of fate.
I’ve personally gone through many experiences where someone has tried to accurately predict what will happen.
ReplyDeleteI think that if someone predicts something and you like what is the supposed result and believe it, you try to make it come true as much as possible. If you try and make the prediction happen, then that’s free will because what you do will affect the outcome. Free will, simply put is you making your own choices when faced with a decision and whichever decision you make will affect what will happen as a result of your choosing. People who believe in free will tend to hold most, if not all the reins to the path they walk. They are the ones who are in control of their own future and usually don’t let anyone else or anything else affect it.
People will decide whether or not to make a prediction happen if they see that the prediction’s outcome will end up benefitting them. If they like what one choice might lead them too, then they will lean towards that option over the other even though they might not know for sure which one is better. They usually base their decisions on instinct and what people consider to be common sense. There’s a saying that is somewhat relevant to this subject which is, “Common sense is like deodorant ; the people that need it most don’t use it.”
Fate, on the other hand, is something completely different. Fate is letting what is “supposed” to happen, happen. I describe fate as people just sitting back and not getting up to making things happen.
When predictions are made and the person who is involved uses “fate” to justify not going after what they want, then I find it overall slightly pointless because to me, what’s the point of wanting something to happen when you’re not going to make it happen ?
All in all, trying to make a prediction come true is free will. You make choices which will affect your future. Simple as that.
Freddie Kao
ReplyDeleteIn my lifetime I have had many experiences in which I was told something had a higher improbability to happen; for example, on numerous occasions I wondered when teachers would give us tests and would say “the test probably won’t be given until Wednesday” but was actually on Monday, or like another incident where a plan was had a low improbability of failing due to its flawless thinking. Yet, it still happened. In other words yes I have had an experience in which I have had something happen that wasn’t supposed to. A lot of the time now after events like these has happened I have had to change how I act towards situations like this, that way it would hopefully make me become more fail proof. This is the same for predictions.
I believe that people act differently when they hear something that “might” happen to them. Most people like to believe in predictions that are for the better. Most people who believe in those predictions that are meant to better themselves often try to make them happen. I mean who wouldn’t? Wanting something good to happen for once shouldn’t be a bad thing right? People who receive bad predictions often become more careful about what they do in order to avoid having the prediction come true.
I think that this is both an act of faith and freewill. Some people act differently for themselves to make sure nothing happens which I consider an act of freewill. The fact that you are still trying to avoid something is still a matter of whether it was meant to happen or not. I believe that most things happen for a reason. Some events take place in order for people to react however they want while others work around its unsuspecting force. It is truly a mystery but I for one believe in fate.
Sharon Phan - 5th period
ReplyDeleteWhen someone tells me I can’t do something I do all I can to prove them wrong. It’s as if it’s an instinct. The way I see it, letting someone tell you that you can’t do something is like saying that they defeated you. You let them win. In other words, it is your choice whether to prove them wrong. I believe that you use free will to determine your fate. From personal experience, I’ve doubted myself many times. For example, this year I told myself to join the school musical. At first it was a joke and didn’t take it seriously; however, I realized that I wanted to be preoccupied and try something new. I had no previous experience in theatre, singing or dancing so I was basically walking in to this blind. I was pretty sure that I wasn’t going to make it and that I would end up embarrassing myself. Nevertheless, I continued to practice and practice for my audition. During the audition, I did embarrass myself, but I still made it. In the end, I didn’t get called back and make the cast list, but I did make the ensemble. All in all, I’m content with what role I play in the production. In other words, everyone has an ideal path that will lead them to ideal happiness, but it’s up to you to make the choices to decide what path you take.
Have you ever predicted or thought of something that would happen to yourself or someone? Life isnt just about free will or fate, theres also imporabable moments that people take place in. As a person ive always been shy to go out and participate in extra curriculuim activities or try out for any sports at school. At the beginning of 10th grade my friends told me to go out for soccer but i wasnt reall all for it. I was scared and had a feeling I wouldnt have made the team,so i ignored them. Two months past and there I was on the field with my cleats shorts and hair in a bun;I was ready. It was the first day of tryouts. I was shacking like crazy I hadnt played in over three years. I imagined myself to being terrible but i eventually made the team. If it wasnt for my freinds that said i should go out I probably wouldnt have ever thought about even trying out. But in the end the team played a great season and we all had a blast. This was more faith than it was free will because something wanted me to go out and play again.
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ReplyDeleteMany people make predictions, but when someone has the chance to affect that prediction, they will affect it. For example, if someone predicts you will be diagnosed with diabetes, you will try and be more healthy so the prediction won't come true. This is free will. Free will consists of yourself making your own decisions as you go along in life. On the contrary, fate is when you believe your life is already planned out for you, and the is no way you can change it. Many will have their own opinions about free will and fate. People will believe in free will and or fate. I actually believe in both. I believe some things happen for a reason which is fate, and I also believe I can make my own decisions and change things around. People can agree or disagree, but that is their opinion and everyone thinks differently.
Katherine martinez
ReplyDeleteI have actually experienced an improbable situation . For example, certain friends told me I wouldnt make it threw softball conditioning like last year . Also that I would quit before tryouts. The fact that my friends said that made me want to prove them incorrect. So that was my motivation to keep going everyday to conditioning. Now im lucky to say that I made it through first cuts and my advantage of going to conditioning was that the coaches got to know me really well. Plus I became close to the other girls who went to conditioning also. Now we're really good friends. I'd say this situation is free will because I decided to prove my friends wrong, and I made everything possible to make it happen. Although it might of been fate that my friends would've said that to motivate me. My opinion in if people try to make predictions come true, I think it all depends. If someone tells you you're going to fail a test it might motivate you to do the best. Or if they say that youre going to pass a test then you do everyting thats possible to make that prediction come true. I think everything happens in free will.
Diogo Holanda
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So in my opinion, I believe that free will is true. “Everything happens for a reason” yes it does, you want something ? You have to earn it. I began to believe in free will as a young child when I noticed that in my life “everything happens for a reason”. When I was only five years old I realized that Brasil(My home Country) had won the FIFA WORLD CUP 4 times when any other country had only won 3 which was Italy/Germany at that time. I’m part Italian ,but my heart is in Brasil. So when the 2002 World Cup came around , I began to think did Brasil win its 4 World Cups due to luck, fate? And I thought some more as the media said “All eyes on Brasil as they try to avenge their 1998 heart –breaking defeat to France in the Finals. So that told me that Brasil had some pressure on them and that there was no possible way that a Country could reach 6 World Cup finals and win 4 of them with only luck and fate. So I realized that Brasil has a very powerful soccer team and that took hard work, determination ,and skill. There might have been some luck but mostly free will. So back to the 2002 World Cup ,Brasil had a lot of work to do before raising “soccer’s” most precious prize for the fifth time. As many people predicted Brasil went on and made it to the finals to face powerful Germany. Fate? I think not , to be that consistent in something there’s no way that’s fate. So Brasil went on and won the World Cup for the fifth time and break another record. Now that I look back at that and I see as life goes on to see that fate is just a myth as free will is all around us. No matter what people say if you truly deserve something it will find its way to you.
There were many experiences throughout my life that people tried to predict my future. Free will is the choices you make to achieve something. While fate is not a choice fate it’s something beyond someone’s control it’s destined to happen. For me I believe in Fate.
ReplyDeleteA year ago just out of curiosity I stopped by a psychic reader and did a basic palm reading. I sat down on the desk and he told me to put my hand out and make three wishes. After I made the three wishes he told me to say them out loud to him. He told me that all of my wishes will come true. He also asked me what I wanted to be I told him I want to own my own business, and he said that it will come true. Then we went on talking about a lot of different things. He told me that I will be successful in business and hotel management. Then he told me that in 2013 will be my luckiest most successful year.
What really appalled me was when he told me about this person who I never mentioned until he brought it up. It shocked me straight and answered his question. He gave great advice to me . I thanked him and left. I wouldn’t be too surprised though because a lot of medians are very interested in me. I’m like a magnet they are attracted to my energy.
My grandmother used to be a psychic. She used to know how to do palm reading and tarot cards, but she stopped because she knew that karma and bad energy will go back and impact her. My grandma and I can see what others can’t, but a lot of people well maybe not here can do too.
It may seem insane but it’s really true some people have a third eye a 7th sense
it is lawl in like asia there are people that purposely open your third eye to mess(F***) with you and you see like dead people, its freaky.
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ReplyDeleteI am someone who personally believes in fate. Back in the 7th grade, I had a best friend who was a boy. Since this was back in the immature middle school days, my peers would constantly tell us that we would end up dating each other. My best friend and I would reassure them that it was never going to happen, and that we would remain best friends.
Over the course of the year, we kept that promise with each other and we were still best friends, however it felt different. We trusted each other and knew everything about each other. I was very paranoid and bewildered at first, but then I realized that realized that I was developing feelings for my best friend. It was a bit awkward to admit at first, but doing so benefit the both of us as he felt the same way too. So basically, our peers' predictions ended up coming true. This is definitely fate since we never intended for it to happen, it just did. We didn't use our free will to force ourselves to like each other to make their predictions come true, it just happened.
However, I believe it just depends on the situation as it can differ. If it's a physical and short-term goal, then I think a person will use their free will to accomplish that goal. For fate, I think that's based more of a long-term, emotional goal in their overall lives.
I think most of the predictions happened because of fate. I think everything happens for a reason. One thing that happened to me was when me and my dad went to go see a soccer a game and once the game started my dad predicted that the other team was going to score first and they did but I predicted that the other team was going to score first because of they were playing in the beginning of the game. But I think most of the predictions happened by observations that they made think that will happened because when we were in the game my dad observed that the other team was plain good so I guess he predicted they were going to score first of by what he saw.
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Do you just wait around and wait for something to happen or go are you a person who makes something happen? We either accept the challenge of an improbable situation and try and turn the odds on our side or submit to defeat that it's most likely never going to happen. Whenever an unlikely prediction is placed upon ourselves we use it as a motivator for us to live up to our own expectations creating a mindset where we make decisions to turn the prediction into truth.
ReplyDeletePredictions are the stimulant of motivation. Throughout my black belt training my support played a huge role in the process with one prediction, "you're going to do fine, you've got this." For two years we trained, and every day we we're on the field or mat, the prediction came back to me which I took advantage of in the end by using it as my motivator, not to prove anything to them; but, to prove it to myself. Things don't just happen to you for no reason, and using an abstract belief system is bias due to religious ties. When you exclude religion from the picture, then what?
Jaylon Williams
ReplyDeleteI think that i rarely experience things like this but one time i was betting on NBA2K13 and my cousin was betting against me that i wouldn't beat him by double digit points so i had to try my hardest to beat him by double digit points and of course i did. I don't believe in fate or freewill but if i had to chose which one it was i would have to say it is fate because i forced a prediction to come true by using my skills and strategies to beat my cousin by double digit points. Things happen for a reason though and it just happens mysteriously and there is nothing we can do about it, that is called freewill. I dont force my predictions to come true unless its really important.
Fate is an inevitable force that you cannot run away from. You can either embrace what fate has in store for you or try to change your fate. Either way you have to deal with fate and destinies. Fate decides what you will or will not do, but are there any options you can choose to decide your own fate? Yes, there is always a choice that everyone makes in their life. Anyone can change their future of fate in life either by striving towards it of trying to push it away. But who knows by actually pushing away the fate, you are actually getting closer to what fate has in store for you, no one knows.
ReplyDeleteIn my life, I have been given many opportunities to change my fate. Personally in my lifetime I’m sure that someone has told me that I would do something and it actually happened but I do not recall it. Even though there was this one time that the coach of the middle school wrestling team once said that I would join wrestling and be a great wrestler because I had a sister that used to wrestle. I had said that I would join because of my sister. I could’ve said no that day and not have wrestled. To this day I wonder what if, I had said no would my life be any different? I don’t know, because fate has its plans for me, and made me say yes that day. The fact that the coach told me that I would be a great wrestler made me want to strive towards being great. I started to go to high school practice when I was still in middle school to increase my knowledge and ability to wrestle. People do try to change their own fates trying to make their predictions true. Who knows if free will is controlled by fate or fate is controlled by free will. I think that it’s the person’s own free will to change their own destiny. Everyone has their own path in life, now what is yours? Would you change course and take another road?
Antonio Pastran
ReplyDeleteI do not recall a time that someone told me something improbable would happen to me. I believe that people try to make predications come true if they are for there own good. If someone predicts that you will be a millionaire if you play the lotto, then you will play as often as possible to make that prediction come true.on the other hand if someone predicts that something bad is going to happen, for example that you will fail your driving test, you would practice as much as possible so that the prediction would not come true. I believe that predictions come true or not by your own freewill. we all decide the out come of our descions. we can't blame anyone for our desisions and the outome of them.many people feel that it is fate because of there religious beliefs.they also feel that everything happens for a reason and it was destiny that played a role in the outcome of the predictions or as they would destiny.
I think that predictions play a huge part in fate. I think that the reason that everything happens in the world is chosen by fate. My story goes back to about a year ago. My futsal team joined a regional competition for the first time. Everybody at our school said we were going to lose and what not. We didn't let that get into our heads. The day finally came for us to play and we were extremely nervous. Our first game we won 5-4 and i think fate let us win on that one. We ended up going to the finals, we were really confident because the team we faced was the easiest team we played. We ended up losing 2-1 over a very easy goal. We were all furious. I guess fate decided that we were not going to win that tournament and all the people who made the predictions were all like "I told you so". Thats really a bad feeling but in my point of view, I tried everything i possibly can to prove everybody who doubted us wrong but fate decided that we would not win that tourney. I think that came down to fate and not dree will because it wasn't really their choice to make us lose, it was just something that happened. I believe that fate chooses everything and the choices that we make is part of fate.
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5th period
I feel life is a mixture of fate and free will. One person has the free will to choose paths or directions. Life is much like a game of pinball, you, the player, control your life, the ball, through various obstacles and changes to obtain an ultimate score until it is game over. Life has a predictable ending, but along the way you could choose the way you get from point A to point B. In the terms of getting from point A to point B you could walk, and take the enjoyable route, run, and get to point B quicker, or you could do parkour throughout the journey and challenge yourself, test your limits and maybe enjoy the trip once in a while. Everything that happens in your life is undetermined until you make the slightest gesture towards any path in life. Imagine if you have just found a dying dehydrated animal, and you need to bring them to water. Some people might let them have a sip out of there canteen other would lead them to a river bank. It is all about the way you perceive the challenge or the opportunity. Opportunity recognition is very important in one’s life to get an advantage over others. Competition occurs when same goals are being strived from and only one can be deemed winner. All of this leads up to the main point of control. Who has control, the smartest person or the person with the most power? Often times the person with control is not the smartest. Why, because smart people put the best person is charge to have authority based off of behavior or just appearance. The choice is yours, is there a free will or a common fate, or is there just a free will to determine a fate?
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ReplyDeleteFate and freewill is a hard decision to make. Personally, I believe in both but it can be interpreted in different views. For example, there was this time in my life when someone told me I could do something that was very unlikely for myself to achieve. I didn't let my thoughts put me down and so I worked to get it done. Especially because it was unlikely for it to happen for a person like me, my choices got me to achieve it (freewill). But if you think deeper into it, what if "fate" sent that person to tell me that I can do something so that I can be motivated to achieve that goal? It wasn't freewill who gave me the opportunity to make it happen, it was what was bound to happen without my control. A supernatural, powerful thing that got me in that position in the first place that only freewill allowed me to continue that fateful goal that God told me that one day, it will happen. My religion also plays a big role into believing in fate. I believe that God had already planned out my whole life, and that I have a certain goal that I must achieve before I die. Predictions are signs that lead you to that path, and your freewill is your key to the fate that God had chosen for you.
(I don't know if yaa feel me, but I was lost in my mind there...)
There were many times in my life where something ironic happened because it was the total opposite of what was expected. I never expected that I would receive my black belt in karate. When I was little, everyone in my family told me that i Would never become a Black Belt or even join for that matter. I wanted to prove them wrong, So at the age of about'11, I enrolled in my first karate class in Pallen's martial arts. My first time was a really pleasant experience. As I rose up In the ranks, karate got harder and harder and I wanted to give up at one point, But i kept my goal in my mind and I had to work for it. It was my choice whether to give up or not, But I chose to persevere. If you really want something, you have to earn it. you cant just sit around and wait for something glorious to happen. All in all I think that we all have free will and its our choice whether to sink or swim in this never ending roller coaster we call life.
ReplyDeleteThere has not been a time when someone said something improbable seriously and it did happened. People have said improbable things jokingly which somewhat did influence me to work towards it but it was because i was working towards that improbable event, which that person was reffering to. I do try to make certain predictions come true depending if i would like for them to come true. In my opinion it is freewill if one actually tries to act towards the prediction but if they just keep to how they were originally navigating then it would be fate.
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ReplyDeleteI believe that people can make their own fate by the decisions and actions that they do. I think that fate is like a suggestion or a guess that might happen in your life; it is not a permanent thing that will happen and the outcomes of your free will can vary. There was a time when someone told me that I couldn’t do a certain thing, that it was my “fate” to not accomplish it. I responded to that situation by trying to prove them wrong, that I could do the impossible. I tried my best and worked twice as hard to change my “fate”. I didn’t want to be told how my future was going to be, I wanted to be the leader of my own life. People and predictions should not determine what will happen to you in your life, you should be responsible for yourself instead. I think people act differently depending on whether the prediction is good or bad because if it’s good they will try to make it happen, but if it’s bad they will try to change it. This is free will because you choose what road you want to take and do what you think is best for yourself. You can choose your own fate by the actions that you do, not a prophecy. Fate is just a prediction, but can be changed by the decisions you make and what you do with your own life. These “fates” motivate you to choose the best decisions and be the best you can be. You decide your own happiness or sadness in your life, not a prediction. Personally, I don’t really believe in fate and if there was a fate, I think that only you can create your own masterpiece in life.
There once was a time in my life where i had someone say something, but in my case it was the opposite , i was working to do make what they said didn't happen, i was told that i wasnt going to graduate and that i was gonna have bad grades all through out highschool. when they said that it kind of motivated me to prove them wrong, and i will ive worked through free will to raise my grades and put myself in a better position. i do think people try to make predictions come true if the prediction is in their favor , but for other people they mght want to work oppisite of waht is predicted like in my case. i think people can be influenced by what someone thinks is fate and works off of free will to make sure it does or doesnt happen. i do feel like free will is more important because i feel that people should work hard for what they want and things shouldnt just be given just because its "fate".
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Fiona Gee
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Predictions of fate can cause one to either accept it, or act on their freewill to change it, but whatever the input, the outcome will always be the same. Fate cannot be altered, as it is the way something is meant to be.
I do not remember a time that someone has predicted an event that caused me to act significantly upon it, but a good example of people acting on a prediction of fate is two people that are in a relationship. I believe that if it is fate, then it's meant to be, and shouldn't be messed with. Often times, your significant other may tell you that the relationship won't work out due to certain problems, and that things would be better that way. Hearing that can cause one to act differently on the current situation and maybe change fate.
I believe that everything happens for a reason, and those things create the pathway of learning and growing up. Sure, one can try to trick and cheat faith, but it will inevitably happen in the future, no matter what you try to do. The choices you make are pointless and futile when it comes to fate, because at the end of your journey, the outcome will always be what it's predicted to be.
Ishmael rico
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When i first started wrestling one of the best people on the team told me i was going to be one of the best. This gave me a lot of hope in wrestling since every day i felt like quitting or never coming back. I would get beat up by all the second years and only won one out of my five varsity matches. It was the boast i needed to keep going. This was the prediction that brought me to where i am today. Although i am not a “beast” at wrestling I have sensed a great change in the way i wrestling. I am better than the first year by a landslide and the people who used to crush me are at my “mercy.”
This may seem like fate, but i think otherwise. It wasn’t fate that brought me to where i am, It was me being tired of losing and as a result trying much harder to be better. I would practice much harder and work out faster and more efficient. It took buckets of sweat and tears to be at where i am now and i hope i am one of the big guns next year. If i stop working hard i know this wont be accomplished. If it was fate i would achieve my goal eventually without having to worry because it would have to happen for it to stay fate. I think this is a very cheap shot at life because there could be someone who is fated to die in a car accident and someone else who is going to win the lottery. I don't know about other people but this would bring to insanity and i would do everything in my power to change it. Free will.
Free will is much more loose. Free will is the ability to chose weather i was going to be good or bad and it is because of free will i believe we make predictions true. Fate i believe is the idea of a perfect universe. It would either guarantee you prosperity or show you your end. Either way i think people would love the idea of fate because they would have nothing to worry about because everything is just part of the plan. If i have a choice i would pick free will because it could either bring you take great success or bring you to the ground. If you are brought down at less you know you can get back up, or you at least get to know that it was your choice,m not someone elses, who took you there.
My personal opion I think its fate and free will because stuff happens withiut people knowing. The things people do like good or badthey either have good or bad carma.it. the choices people do will predict thier life. Sometimes people predict and it comes true because they study what there doing or how they act. At the school kids predict theri life because they think thier bad in school but they just dnt wanna put no effort.everybody has theri choices but people vo by fate because people think thier going to be succful because thier parents are smart. People that goof around they think they are not going to be anybody in life like on my life i always predict that teams would win the nfl but they would lose because they make their own future. When someting happen its because they desver it or its that somebody didnt like them. Like when people lose money its not free woll because they just dont throw it on the ground its fate because theey dont need the money
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No one yet has yet predicted anything that will happen to me. I do think people try to predict possible events either to help people or to scared them. The easy they could help is by like being a motivation or a support. The way that could scared them is by predicting a bad possible event. But do you really think a predictions can be true? Well I don't, it is free will. We have the right to make our decision. We are capable to make a decision and follow through the good or bad outcome. If we take a good decision, we will see the outcome at the end and if we take a bad decision, we still learn from our mistake. At the end of the day it is really up to us to make or decisions and make our own life. No one can predict our life nor tell us what is going to happen. We are not alone to make the decision, we could get advice from our parents and people we trust, but no one can predict our future. The only thing I believe is fate is that we are born to to die sooner or later. That's the only thing fate is for me and the rest is free will. We are the ones that make our decision and we have the right to make our life. Free will is what drives the path
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Santiago Ayala period 4
I grew up as a Catholic, and I have believed in god my whole life. I believe the everything that occurs to us happens because of fate. Everybody expects their predictions to come true, so in that case people begin to pray for it to occur.
ReplyDeleteThat I remember, there was never a time where someone predicted that something in my life would come true. However I have noticed on other people that it has been fate and not freewill that changed their life. Even if they have tried to make the prediction come true, what happened to them was meant to happen.
Recently a tragedy has happened in my family, and I believe it all happened because of fate. In mid November, one of my uncles invited my father to go to México, but my father refused because he had to work. A few days later my father talked to his father , and he told my father that he would regret not going to México. Because of what my grandfather said, my father decided to go to Mexico. On December 7 my father and my uncle began their three day drive to Mexico. On their second day of driving, they found out that my grandfather was in the hospital sick of pneumonia. On their third day they drove straight to the hospital to see how my grandfather was doing. After a couple of days in the hospital, the doctor told my father and his family that he only had about a month or even a few weeks left. As soon as the doctor told them that, they took him home so he could enjoy his last weeks. He was in pain his last days because he had boils all over his body. My father and my uncle would carry him everywhere he needed to go because he would be in excruciating pain when he put weight on his feet. My grandfather's heart got swollen for the reason that he had trouble breathing. Since his heart was big he could not lay down at all because he felt that he was choking. In that case he slept sitting down. Do to all his conditions, he rarely slept. On the week of Christmas my dad was worried that he wouldn't be able to be there for my grandfather's funeral. Finally on Christmas Day, my grandfather past away.
Even though my father wanted this tragedy to happen while he was in México, he did not provoke it. He might have chosen to go to Mexico; however, it was fate that chose to give his vacation so he could have the chance to go and spent his last moments with his father.
Karina Bolanos 5
I think that things happen for a reason.i think that god does make you go through good things to teach you something new.Sometimes the things that happen to you might be good or bad things.In my life there has only been one person who has told me that something will happen to me that would be good in my life.To this point that hasn't happened,i think,but this has made me always think about things that have happened and make me wonder if it has already happened but i just haven't noticed. i think that it's fate.
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Has anyone attempted to predict an event in your future and within a period of time it came true? To be completely honest, I hate it when people attempt to predict what’s going to happen to me; but nothing gets beneath my skin than the event coming true. Unfortunately, it happens more often, usually rarely in my favor.
ReplyDeleteAn example of this starts in the primary days of elementary. I was eight years old, long defined wavy hair, stood roughly around four feet and eight inches, and I wore a bright red tee shirt that has SpongeBob, holding a jellyfish net with one leg up in the air plastered on the center. I remember it being lunch time and I got to leave class ten minutes early with one of my guy friends to go help the lunch lady to serve lunch to the rest of the kids at our school. It was one of those voluntary events where two people from each class and grade get to help out one day of the week; which most people died to get that job because we got to miss out on learning fractions. So my friend lets name him Bob and I are heating up grilled cheese sandwiches and pulling out the salad bar in the center of the cafeteria. That entire time we were bickering, bantering, and making fun of each other to have fun, and to see who would break first. And I distinctly remember yelling exasperated to the lunch lady, “See what I have to live with?” Then I resentfully scowl at Bob because he continued to smirk, seeing that I had lost. The kind old woman looked at me and commented, “You live with him? Or you are around him all the time?” I playfully scoffed, put my tiny hands on my hips and sassily retorted, “I don’t think I can ever hang out with him ever again. He is the grossest, smelliest, and meanest boy in the whole planet. He maybe has the biggest cooties too! Eww.” Bob irritated mumbled something about not have cooties, and that I had them, but was interrupted as the older woman laughed and smiled adoringly at us, “You know, the more you fight now, the more likely that you will like each other. Remember this day.” Bob and I dry heaved for a few seconds and continued to work in silence.
Fast forward three years later, I found myself to be infatuated with the same guy for the past two years, and I hated every second of it. I hated how he could never take a hint like “Hello ‘best friend’! Me gusta.” Then when he finally understood, things got crazy and messed up. We never actually dated, even up to this day, but it never seemed to stop both of us liking each other off and on throughout the end of primary school until the end of middle school/beginning of high school. And every time things got rough between us I always wonder, “Why? Why him? Why me? How could this possibly happen?” But AT the end of the day, I always go back to that day in the cafeteria, because I always believed that that’s when it all started. I knew that we were bound to like each other because we were all that we had ever known at a young age, and we were always together, but i don’t think that it was fate that brought us to where we are now. It was free will. I wanted to like him; I want to make things complicated, or whatever. I can only say that it was free, and a dose of stupidity and too many cookies, but I liked him because I chose to. It is unfortunate because it kind of tainted a nice friendship along the way. But I, or we, chose to end things like that. It was based on an embedded idea from eight, and manifested by my own determination.
Jessica Sandoval
Kamarri Williams
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I have had the experience of someone predicting the improbable happening to me. It was back in the 7th grade when I had become to caught up in wrestling and spending less time focusing on my math homework. That year I was aiming for a 4.0 and the only subject that could hinder that dream was Pre Algebra. Since i had fallen behind all the way to a C- I had given up. Over the weekend I was my grandfather and he had asked me about school (as all adults do for whatever reason.) Anyway I told him about how I wouldn't be able bring my math grade up. Turns out he was in the same predicament before. He, however, was not successful but realized what he did wrong. He told me as long as I look at the situation no differently I will succeed. Needless to say he was correct. I did end up getting that 4.0 thanks to not giving up and looking at the situation, not as an impossible deficit to overcome, but a regular step to success.
Interestingly (or not) I was in the same position again. During a wrestling match I was finally about to place in a tournament and receive a medal. Only one opponent stood in my way of that goal and I was not going to be denied. However after the first period I had left my adversary outscore me 6-0. The second period was better, I managed to score a take-down. Nevertheless at the end I was still down 9-2. I started to get in my stance when I remembered my grandfather's advice. I took stance and got to work. It was probably the longest minute of my life. Also my opponent had grew a little content and played to not lose and not win. I went out there full force with such tenacity I surprised myself. I had about 5 seconds left and got my opponent in an Andersen Bar and had him. He was not escaping. Sadly, like the 49ers, I was cheating and the referee took way too long to count the pin.I ended up losing 9-8 but that day I learned a lot.
Fast forward to 9th grade. Young, foolish me once again did not take Biology seriously and found myself with a D-. The 3rd quarter was nearing end and I had to be PERFECT in the 4th quarter to receive an A and not go to the dreaded summer school. My friends jokingly said that they would save me a spot in summer school. Anyway I looked at my dire circumstance and took care of business. I did what I needed to do with no excuses and chipped away, not missing a single assignment and not missing more than one question on test. I successfully completed the quarter with an A and had a semester grade of a B-.
That day and conversation I had with my grandpa was fate. Without that conversation I probably would have no wrestling medals (I got some later in the season), terrible grades, and not believe in the improbable. Now do I believe in fate? Of course.Do I believe in free will? Of course. Fate and free will are one in the same. Fate is simply a predetermined destination in life. Free will is the road you travel to get to that destination. To visualize this concept think of the Final Destination movies. Everything the characters did were their own actions and because of free will. But in the end their fate lead to their predetermined death. Another example would be Michael Jordan. His fate was to be a great basketball player. Yet he was cut from his high school basketball team. That was fate too. That lead him to working with such determination and drive that nothing could hold him back and lead him to the NBA.
The way I see it is life has these little "checkpoints" (I would imagine them such or similar). Those "checkpoints" are fate. Free will is just used to get you there.
Alan Ralph
ReplyDeleteFate is something that is not set up to happen by choice, but something that comes about that is mean to be. Throughout my life I have came across many times when friends have told me I couldn't do something wether it be changing schools my freshmen year, improving my grades, or even starting my own business.
When I was in sixth grade I became highly interested in music. Every Sunday I would go to the local music store, Music Unlimited, and look at all the DJ equipment. One day I brought the idea up to one of my friends that it would be super awesome if I could become a DJ. Most people would doubt the skills of a sixth grader and wouldn't trust them to take on the huge burden of being the life of the party. Of course my friends said that it would never happen and that I couldn't do it especially because of my age. The moment they said that I was on a mission to prove them wrong. That year for Christmas I asked for a set of turntables. I got them and for a year I was practicing. It wasn't long after I got my turntables that I DJed my first class party. It was a party for my class and some other people from other schools my age. It was a huge success. I had proven everyone wrong that told me I couldn't pull it off but I wasn't done yet. I held myself to higher standards. As I got older I DJed my first middle school dance. Before I knew it I had a full, professional sound system and DJ set up. I was able to make enough money to continue to buy more equipment. Still as time passed I wasn't satisfied with how far I had gotten with my business. As I got older kids started telling me the same thing I had heart before. I was getting such as, " You can't get any big events Alan, you're still only 15."
Not long after people started saying stuff like that I got my first real, professional offer. I had gotten a job offer to DJ a Sweet 16 on MTV in Los Angeles. The client was willing to fly me out along with all my gear and pay for my hotel. When everyone found out that I was offered this job they were extremely impressed. At that point I felt like I had proven everyone wrong. I felt that a job offer had proven that with fate, anything can happen.
I am a believer in fate because of where it has gotten me in life.