"We make our own destiny" - Is this statement correct?

I think of life as a complex, dynamic flowchart in which we are active participants. So in a way, you make your own destiny, but there are usually so many variables involved and that you cannot control, that the outcome might not be what you expected. Made sense? Sometimes things work because people make it work and sometimes something else comes along that breaks it off. You cannot predict it.

hello, life indeed is complicated.. there are so many possibilities than we can get hold or we can be in a stand to believe. i believe that destiny is what we make it... no matter how much we say in a conditional statement if, we still end up filling the pieces of the puzzle and make our own actions and decisions which then result to our own deeds and choices.. everything we do we cant blame the condition, if a relationship broke up because of the fact that you said its not meant to be, it is, i agree, because it ended up.. but the argument comes.. it is not meant to be, because of what you have done and what had happened... we are in control of our lives and our selves... we cannot let someone have the path for us to take.. we do our decisions and stick to it, or may change it, but what we have been doing and what we are trying to achieve or reach for a goal is a movement to your destiny.. you planned to be a lawyer, but destiny calls you to be a chef, it so happened you change your direction or destination and made a point to take another path, thus your said destiny wasn't made. because you didn't make it, you rather be a chef, you found yourself years later that what is your passion is cooking and in the kitchen and not handling cases reading books and staying in the office.. in a relationship, there are too many things to consider, it is not because destiny wasnt for both of you, its you and your partner, the matters between you counts.. and since nothing is permanent, it may change, the so called destined can be diverted and can change its way... thats why we try to work it out... play our part, do our role as the lover to make it to the most, and fulfill everything we have to.. and give love without the thought of it in return.. but if both cant have the compatibility and cant understand or relate to each other, everything was not going to meet to one goal, thus what you are is not what you have both like it to be, thats why we can have break ups and endings, then we can have second chance.. it wont mean you broke up then its never for you and that person, we are limiting our selves, and only time knows how we cross our paths again.. thus we can make it to the most impossible.. i am the captain of my ship.. i can be who i want to be.. because i will aim to be that particular, and its my will to find the happiness in me... because i am making my own destiny.. complicated ey..? take care^_^

yes i agree with u and believe in this statement

There's a saying that goes like this "Destiny is not a matter of chance it's a matter of choice, it's not something to e waited for, it's something to be achieved". I believe that we make our own destiny by the choices we make each day. For instance, do you believe that people are destined to go to hell or to heaven, and that there's nothing they could do about it? I know people are what they are right now is because of their choices.

Destiny only takes us so far..the rest is up to us

Technically speaking we cannot make our own destinity because destiny by definition is: " A predetermined course of events considered as something beyond human power or control". Personally speaking, I don't believe in destiny. We choose our path and make our own choices. I strongly believe that a person arrives to a destination because he choose to be there not because he is destined to be there. Wheb it comes to love. A couple stays together because they choose to be together. They choose that everything else doesn't matter as long as there together. Couples that eventually lose each other are distracted couple. They let other elements to come in between them. Is it because they were not destined to be together? No. It is because they choose to let other things interfere in there relationship. We are the captain of our ship. The master of our souls.