Fate and Free Will

Imagine your life as a river. The river will always travel in the same general direction. It will always begin in the same place, and it will always end in the same general location. This is how fate may be represented.

Now imagine the journey of all of the water that flows in that same river. Imagine all the bends and turns and consequences for every nuance that exists as a result of the formation of this river. The starting and ending points remain the same yet the journey is what makes the river distinct; even it's very condition as it defines itself utterly throughout the course of it's formation. This is how free will may be represented.

How you start or even the limits of your journey may be a matter of fate or pre-determination. Yet the choices you make along the way form the overall appearance of the way your river distinguishes itself. Will it be a raging current, strong and hewing itself a path through even the greatest of stone or rock impediment? Or will it become a frail, dying stream, lackluster and lifeless as it reaches its bitter end?

~Himoura