Essay about Control and The Role of Destiny, Free Will, and Fate

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Who or what do you let control your life? Who or what determines whether you are happy or sad?

People always say you can change your fate on the decisions you make. The thing that I control would probably be my technology. Another I would say I control would be myself, but I don't always control myself. One thing I don't have control over is my fate. In Shakespeare's Macbeth, (Kipling's, If) and (Epstein's, The Sport's Gene) it's proven that we can control our actions, ourselves, but we have no control over our fate.

There are many different types of control that are experienced throughout any given person’s lifetime. There is being the person in control, being controlled by someone else, and even being controlled by one’s self. Each position has an effect on surrounding people and the mental state of the being. Within the texts, Macbeth, “And of Clay we are Created,” “The Yellow Wallpaper,” and “To Build a Fire,” the influence of control is always there, but appears in different forms.

How much of what happens in our lives do we actaully control? It’s very obvious that there’s always an justification of each individual’s actions. Was it the individual’s own choices or some outside force that influenced the actions? For example, parents mosly excercise control over a child’s life. The responsibility of the parents to make the choice of cultivation of their child, mostly affects the outcome of the child’s life.

In the world there are two distinct types of things. There are things that exist external to us, such as one's reputation or a relationship. We do not have direct control over these things since they exist outside of us. Then there are internal things that we do have control over, like out desires, or things we dislike. The internal things can be controlled, while the external can be harder to control. Some philosophers even believe that the external things cannot be controlled, and attempting to control them will just bring unhappiness.

Although the previous controls have been quite concrete, there is a more abstract control humans face everyday: the control of time. A person’s perception of time is limited by what other people allow him to believe about it. When a person’s time is limited under the control of other people, he is unsure of how to manage in regular life because of how abnormal it seems in comparison. In Breakfast of Champions, an ex-convict is let out of jail. This sounds like freedom, but through the control he was under for all those years in jail, he now does not know what to do, “I had Wayne Hoobler, the black ex-convict, stand bleakly among the garbage cans… and examine the currency which had been given to him at the prison gate… He had nothing else to

From detailed and classy focused clothing to comfort and simplistically focused attire. These days there is an abundance of fashion lines and ideas. One can pick and choose whatever is to be worn. The choices that are available are almost endless. People have evolved to learn and accept people’s ways of dressing since a vast majority of it is made for comfort and not looks.

Some people may say that having control over someone or something can bring satisfaction and a sense of power. In the an article called “Gunman Kills Himself After Hostage Drama (584)” written by Charles P. Wallace and Tim Waters loss of control and the feeling of being helplessness makes Robert B. Rose commit a last act of asserting control over himself. In another article written by Martin E.P. Seligman called “On Learned Helplessness (585)” the feeling of loosing control of oneself is something that can cause someone to do things that they thought they would never do. What is hard to understand is that some of the things the someone may commit may implicate the lives of others in a negative way and the ending result could be death.

I believe that educated, motivated and adventuress individuals exercise their free will in their decision making. However, I find that individuals that base their decisions off their personal environment and circumstances are likely to not be well educated and do not find value in learning and taking chances.

You're on a plane, going to visit your grandparents in Arizona, because you havn’t seen them before. But then, the plane starts to nose dive towards the ground. The plane is about to crash, but at the last second, it doesn’t. The pilot saves the plane. The pilot is just a regular pilot. But that only happens because they know what to do. But what if they were just a regular human, with no license to fly. What would that be? Would that be fate? No. That would be luck.

There have been so many amazing things that I have experienced in my life already. I look forward to each new experience I may have an opportunity to have. Each day is a victory, a challenge, and a success story. Every day is a gift and you should take full advantage of everyday you are given. Unfortunately, we all miss some of the best moments in life by being so concerned about control life.

In summation, we may be influenced by parents, peers, and surroundings, but it is up to us to make the choice on how they influence. Parents may feed you unhealthy food when you’re a child, but once you mature it is up to you to make the choice to eat healthy food. Peers may influence you by asking you to do drugs, smoke, and drink, but it is up to you to make the choice to say no to them. The media, social or otherwise, may influence you to socialize face to face with your friends, but it is up to you to make the choice to make that phone call to hang out with those friends. Influences, good and bad, are everywhere. But it is the choices we make through thinking, and not imitating, that defines

I believe that control is merely an illusion that we like to believe we have. In one of Dr. Caulder's sessions with Ethan, the guards are asked to leave and soon Dr. Caulder is held captive by Ethan and is demanded to write down what he has lost. Dr. Caulder answers “control” but Ethan says no and asks a few more times. Finally realizing what Ethan is talking about, Dr. Caulder writes down “illusion.”Ethan then explains how we only have the illusion of having

Your conscious mind is not, has never been, and never will be in full control of your destiny. Most of your power is held within your non-conscious mind.