Is everything predetermined in life or you do have a choice?
By Anand Parkhi
@parkhianand (13)
January 31, 2017 4:03am CST
The answer to this question is something i believe we all are seeking. Definitely, there would be point in life, wherein you would have come across this question and the circumstances must have shook your primary belief. I have gone through many occasions which point to the predetermined option & sometimes i have realized that it is our choice that has taken us so far. But do you really question what or who has compelled you to make the choices?
I really to know myLotters experience!
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@parkhianand (13)
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1 Feb 17
Exactly, opportunity cost! And you do keep hoping for something else to takes its place till the time you get but that journey is all huff-puff and when you get it, you suddenly realize your hair is greying, vision is blurring and you are 50 already!
@Bodyandbrain (13797)
• Gurgaon, India
4 Feb 17
Yes, you are righ. I feel the same most of the time.
@cmoneyspinner (9219)
• Austin, Texas
4 Feb 17
I watched an old movie Elvis Presley movie and the character he played was having a difficult life. I remember him saying “If this is what my life is going to be like, I might as well die now and get it over with!”
I feel that way about the question you posed. If my life is predetermined, I might as well die and get it over with. What's the point living? I can't make any decisions for myself. Everything is a done deal! It's already been decided. Might as well die, leave this place, and take my chances in the next life.
If you say there is no next life, then that's fine by me. Now I don't have nothing and nothing to worry about or question because I don't exist any more. No predetermined life and also no life screwed up from me making bad choices.
I usually know why I make the decisions I make. Even if I guessed at what to do, because I didn't know what to do! It was my decision to guess! 
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@cmoneyspinner (9219)
• Austin, Texas
5 Feb 17
@parkhianand - OK. I'm sticking with my answer. I don't have anything else to add. Nice talking to you and reading your points and perspectives.
@parkhianand (13)
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4 Feb 17
I completely understand what you say! Is there a free will?
Well the level of predetermined life seems to be different for different people. For some its almost nil, for some its grueling, some have found a way around it. There is no definite answer, but somehow i believe if 9 out of 10 of your decisions are failing, then you should try not deciding at all and going with flow for some time and embrace the situations. Come on! what's the worse going to happen - you might end! That's what the ultimate is. But at least you would be satisfied that you tried.
A spiritual aspect however can save you here is understanding that you are a tool or a medium to get some objectives accomplished on earth & the universe is advertently using you more as a medium. So as an individual with limited free will you just need to keep faith in something higher; believe in karma, god, a guru, a higher energy, something that hasn't failed you till now. And this can begin when you ask yourself "who am i? why was i born?". Interesting revelations should surface once on path of finding the answer. May be that would carry you till the end. Ending abruptly is definitely not the answer. Again, its difficult to imbibe but possible.
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@allknowing (135822)
• India
31 Jan 17
As I look at it, we need to do what we are expected to do and then be satisfied with what comes our way.
@parkhianand (13)
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31 Jan 17
Being satisfied takes immense strength; but doesn't it hamper growth as you don't seek more
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@allknowing (135822)
• India
31 Jan 17
@parkhianand It is a continuous process but doing that in a disgruntled fashion is not what we are expected to do
@parkhianand (13)
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31 Jan 17
@allknowing yeah a continuous process indeed, but then we are surrounded by people with limited patience & awaiting end results "fast & furious" with practical ways...
@parkhianand (13)
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2 Feb 17
Science says the probability of living form to exist accidental on earth is equal to rolling the dice 70 times & each time resulting 6 on top...how is that possible?....thus even scientists are now indicating of higher energy form existing and that the universe has just right conditions for human beings to be exist on earth.
If so, then do our decisions matter?
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@parkhianand (13)
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31 Jan 17
Agreed, but when you analyze it wholly after some time, it seems to be a perfect plan of the universe. So again you tend question yourselves, "was it really my choice?"
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@Salonis (177)
• Amritsar, India
31 Jan 17
@parkhianand right, i agreed in few points of my life.. because i think my fiancee and my mother both are really like a blessing for me.
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I think it is up to God.@dfollin (25351)
• United States
4 Feb 17
@parkhianand That is what I have been told, but it is not always easy!
