Making a choice is probably the most difficult and most influential thing you'll ever do. It's funny because I used to believe in destiny and fate. I still do, but to a lesser extent. The less I believe in fate, the more I believe in free will. That's probably the common equation anyways. The last couple years, I have ran my whole life on the philosophy of free will -- yet didn't realize that my belief in free will was contradicting my belief in fate. I'm agnostic so I do believe in a higher power, but I'm an apathetic agnostic. If he/she/it does exist, he/she/it cares little about what I do anyways. So it's not like I've had the big debate in my mind about having free will vs god knowing what we're going to do already. Obviously, it's a scary concept to think that everything bad and good that occurs in your life is in part by something you did or did not do. Humans love to play the blame game and blaming a higher power is quite easy. All in all, the idea of just letting things happen is an uncomfortable idea..for me. I don't feel the need to control everything, because I can't. I know that. But I think there is something behind the whole productivity idea that gets me motivated. I think without my belief in free will, I would just lay around all day. I'd like to believe that my life has a purpose or mission. Not a divine - higher power - save the cheerleader, save the world kind of mission, but a purpose that gives my life substance. A purpose I have decided for myself, by myself, and not by someone else. I believe I'm here for a reason, to change something, to affect someone... I don't need to believe in a higher power like destiny or fate to come to that conclusion.