Destiny Paper Final
Kathleen Hurtado
Professor Shanda Boone-Hurdle
September 25, 2013
English 111
Can You Control Your Destiny? Destiny is something that many people see as unforgiving, unchangeable, and irrefutably controlling. Destiny cannot be changed or controlled by someone. However, a person’s actions and reactions to events in their life can be controlled. John Lennon once said, “There’s nowhere that you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be.” If someone is in a place in life that they don’t like, it’s for a reason. Whether that reason is that the individual is supposed to learn a lesson from the situations that arise, make connections with people that will help them out down the road, or experience an event that will lead them somewhere better in life, it all has a reason. If someone is in a good spot in their life, that can sometimes prove to them that positive things will be coming their way. If that person is in a bad spot, it can be a sign that it is going to take them to another important and positive place in their life. Destiny does not mean that a person has absolutely no control of the events that occur in their life. The events are going to happen, but an individual has complete control of how they react during and after those events. In White Night, written by Jim Butcher, he says, “What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?” Free will and destiny go hand in hand. Destiny is what is going to happen, regardless, but a person’s free will can change how your destiny is handled in regards to your reactions. Destiny is not one set event that is going to happen just out of random. Destiny is events that happen in response to an action or a reaction. In the “Choose Your Destiny” books, sometimes the reader ends up on the same page multiple times, even if they made a different decision every time they read it. Destiny is, in a way, very similar to that. No matter what a person does in life, the decisions they make,
Professor Shanda Boone-Hurdle
September 25, 2013
English 111
Can You Control Your Destiny? Destiny is something that many people see as unforgiving, unchangeable, and irrefutably controlling. Destiny cannot be changed or controlled by someone. However, a person’s actions and reactions to events in their life can be controlled. John Lennon once said, “There’s nowhere that you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be.” If someone is in a place in life that they don’t like, it’s for a reason. Whether that reason is that the individual is supposed to learn a lesson from the situations that arise, make connections with people that will help them out down the road, or experience an event that will lead them somewhere better in life, it all has a reason. If someone is in a good spot in their life, that can sometimes prove to them that positive things will be coming their way. If that person is in a bad spot, it can be a sign that it is going to take them to another important and positive place in their life. Destiny does not mean that a person has absolutely no control of the events that occur in their life. The events are going to happen, but an individual has complete control of how they react during and after those events. In White Night, written by Jim Butcher, he says, “What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?” Free will and destiny go hand in hand. Destiny is what is going to happen, regardless, but a person’s free will can change how your destiny is handled in regards to your reactions. Destiny is not one set event that is going to happen just out of random. Destiny is events that happen in response to an action or a reaction. In the “Choose Your Destiny” books, sometimes the reader ends up on the same page multiple times, even if they made a different decision every time they read it. Destiny is, in a way, very similar to that. No matter what a person does in life, the decisions they make,