Last night I watched The Adjustment Bureau starring Matt Damon and Emily Blunt.
It got me thinking about fate and chance. Are there higher forces/beings/spirits whatever you want to call them that make the choices for us only allowing us to believe that we make them by ourselves. The film goes along the fact that say for instance we spill our coffee on ourselves before we go to work. We would of course change our clothes and therefore making us a little late for work. Would this be classed as fate or chance? It was fate in the film that Matt Damon in the film ran into Emily Blunt which then inspired him to make one of the most compelling and moving speeches of his political career. However it was chance that brought them together again, twice.
We are told to believe that free will is available to us, yet is it really?! I've never really though about this sort of thing before but just think, the world is kept in order by people who make the decisions for us. By a higher being that keeps us all in check, so next time I spill a cup of coffee or run into some Matt Damon lookalike I will be asking myself, is this fate or is it chance?
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