I heard an extremely interesting quote today that really made me think. Here’s the quote: “We are shaped by fate just as we shape it,” Wow. Isn’t that an amazing quote? It definitely makes you wonder if you are in control of your own life. All the events that happen to you could be fate shaping you, and you shaping fate by responding to those actions. It’s an amazing thing to think about. We shape our own future daily, is that fate, or are we just here making random decisions that happen to end up a tapestry?

Do we truly know what is best for us? Do we really know what the best choice is, or do we make decisions impulsively? I think a lot of the time we do things based on what would be good for us now, and don’t think about the future. Sometimes we don’t even review our past mistakes. Although you shouldn’t regret the past, you should definitely learn from mistakes that you have made. The present should be our focus, and the future should be what we look forward to.

Have you ever wanted to go back and change something? Change something that you think you’ve done wrong in the past? Think back to a situation, that you may regret, and if you could change it, would you? Should you is a better question. Changing that situation would alter so much. Changing it would in essence make you less aware of your surroundings, less aware of what you should and shouldn’t do in the future. So in a way, the situation that you would like to change, would happen inevitably, because if you went back and changed it, who is to say that you wouldn’t make the same mistake again, because your memories of that situation would be lost. We all have things that we wish we would have done differently. Things that we wish we wouldn’t have said or done, and we say that we would give up so much to go back and correct it. This comes back to the issue of regret. Well if you stop and think about it, to regret something you did, is better to regret something you didn’t do. Altering what you did in the past would do nothing but alter your position now, so would you really want that? Would you want to be less of a person than you are today for one small mistake that you made in the past?

Have you ever wondered what the future will bring? You have to ask yourself, if you could view the future, would you? Because, by simply viewing it, you would change it. If you could glimpse into the future, and see who you were to marry, wouldn’t that change your current situation? Wouldn’t that change your actions around that person? Or do you think fate is so strong that you would end up together anyway? It’s definitely something to think about. Life is a complex thing. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve thought to myself that something was fate, or something was meant to be, but it ended up being me acting on my own impulses. I wanted something that wasn’t necessarily for the best, but I wanted it so bad, I was blinded. I wanted, I didn’t need. It’s necessary to stop sometimes and ask yourself, although you wish something would happen, is it truly what would be best for the long run, or is it just you acting on impulse?

Time passes so fast. Within the blink of an eye I am going to be an old man. It truly amazes me. I think back, and it seems like it was just yesterday that I was thinking, “Wow I wish I was old enough to drive,” and things of that nature. And now, since I am older, about to turn twenty, I just want to be young again. Twenty years old, it’s really hard for me to comprehend that. We as humans really don’t realize how short life really is. We have to be careful and spend our time wisely. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” Yes it’s a Gandalf quote, and yes I’ve used it before, but I can’t put into words how much it means to me. It’s also amazing to think how all things play into parts of our lives. For an example, even evil things change the outcome of your life. In fact, those evil things may play a necessary role in your life. How can we say that our lives aren’t planned out? If you think back, to a minor situation, and remove almost any event, it will change your current position in life.