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What will you do next?

Great. What will you do after that? Fantastic! What about after that? Alright. How about after that? We could play this game all day. So let's do it. Obviously, we could choreograph every last one of our actions to reflect the actions that we have in mind. We are the controllers of our own fate. But when does that control suddenly shift gears, and we become passengers beholding our own fate? If we were to plan every action of, say, a given day, so as to be able to predict every event that takes place in that day, how accurate would our predictions be? Well, the truth of the matter is that life is so complex and intricate, there could be no way we could expect to know every event that would take place in a 24 hour period. The random variables that may encroach our plans, the people we happen to run into, the improvised events that detour the path ahead; all of which prohibit accurate predictability. But what decides what those prohibitions may be?

What ends up deciding the unpredictable?

This question, although simple in premise, brings forth a divide in philosophy that to some invokes strong feelings. By the nature of the word 'unpredictable', there is no way to predict what will happen. Every day we wake up blind to the events that are to come, from the trivially minuscule to even the most grand of events in some cases. But are we enabling a self-intrinsic bias to believe that simply because we can not predict the outcome of an event, there are not others who can predict our fate? Our own fate. Predestination. Have our lives already been laid out for us? Is every single action, from the routine to the unpredictable, not an act of chance but a carefully determined, algorithmic process that all happens for a reason?

Woah. We're getting pretty philosophical here.

So what does all of this mean for us? What does it matter whether our lives are constantly creating new events to experience or that every action, from our past to our present to every event in our future, has already been decided for us? The importance lies not within what side we have taken, but rather the fact that we have the ability to question the future. As before mentioned, there are those who have devoted their entire lives to the quest of discovering where they have come from. I also mentioned last week the topic of scrutinizing the unknown. This is exactly what the meticulous act of determining our future does. Time devoted to something that should, more or less, be unknown. I'm sure we've all been asked the hypothetical question "if you could know what date you would die, would you?" Well, my question is why would you want to? Having such knowledge merely trivializes the events and the days that are in between now and your death. Whereas, life is this extraordinary entity of unknowns and variables, where not only is the negative contained but also the most positive experiences that life has yet to expose to us. So why wait for what's next?

Make it happen.