Destiny and Coincidence...

^^ A philosophic title and a philosophic topic this time...
Gosh, the word PHILOSOPHIC is hard to type quickly! Õ.Õ
I've been thinking a lot about this lately, I was inspired by philosophy class of my sister, long story short: it was about beliefs...

This is what I came up with, after thinking it through:
There are two things that you can believe in, concerning the future.
Those are Coincidence or Destiny.

Coincidence
People who believe in coincidence, might believe in good or bad luck as well, since luck is something that can happen to anyone, at anytime and unannounced.
People who believe in coincidence don't think a certain destiny exists.

Destiny
People who believe in destiny might be people who live the day without reflecting on their acts, since it was inevitably that the events would happen.
I think destiny believers are people who live by the day or for the future, but definitely not focused on the past.
Destiny believers might believe in luck as a way to influence destiny (as a way to make things happen faster/earlier).

Luck actually has quite a difficult meaning. People who believe in luck can either believe in coincidence, because luck is something out of a lotery, or they believe in destiny, because luck can be obtained by avoiding black cats for example...

Here's my real dilemma: I don't believe in coincidence, but I also don't believe in destiny and that things happen as they were meant to happen... (I'm also not a firm believer of luck, other then "I'm lucky I don't have to go outside now that it rains" for example).

So what do I believe in?
I mean, there seems to be no other path then planned future (destiny) or unplanned future (coincidence), right?

Still, I definitely do not believe in everything being a series of coincidental events, but I feel destiny is a word that's too strong...

After thinking long and hard about what I believe in, I came to this conclusion:

I believe in GOD. He has a plan (planned future!), but he gave us a free will, to choose for him or not (unplanned future!).
On our path through life, we can make decisions on what we do and think, but for everything we have no influence on, God decided.
"Destiny" in my eyes means "God's decisions" and "coincidence" means "my free will".

^^ So what do you believe in? =)

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*~Maria ♥