Writer's Block: Meant to Be?
May. 5th, 2009 11:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Do I believe in fate?
My first thought was that I don't really know what the word means, even though I use it fairly often, usually joking. So I looked it up in Chambers:
Conceptually speaking, it sounds like predestination.
No, I don't believe in fate. Our lives are built, shaped, crafted and evolved by ourselves - and what we make of the complex random circumstances and events of our lives.
Do I believe in fate?
My first thought was that I don't really know what the word means, even though I use it fairly often, usually joking. So I looked it up in Chambers:
fate noun 1 (also Fate) the apparent power that determines the course of events, over which humans have no control. 2 the individual destiny or fortune of a person or thing; what happens to someone or something. 3 ultimate outcome. 4 death, downfall, destruction or doom. a fate worse than death facetious a gruesome or unpleasant situation.
ETYMOLOGY: 14c: from Latin fatum that which has been spoken, ie by an oracle.
Conceptually speaking, it sounds like predestination.
No, I don't believe in fate. Our lives are built, shaped, crafted and evolved by ourselves - and what we make of the complex random circumstances and events of our lives.
