As a person who read many novels,watched many Movies and dabbled as a Mini-philosopher ,I have increasingly come to the conclusion that Life,may indeed rely more on FATE than anything else. No matter the human condition,Fate seems to rear it's head,no matter the person.Fate,like life itself cannot be bothered with triviality of purpose by human beings.Like in the Animal Kingdom,certain rules apply, but the end result may have more to do with things totally beyond our control. Like Witnessing a Miracle.As one enters old age they will,indeed,witness a Miracle or Miracles { plural }. Traffic accidents are the most common. Ralph Waldo Emerson said : " To be great is to be misunderstood.Is it so bad then to be misundertstood ? Pythagoras was misunderstood,and Socrates,Jesus, and Luther. Copernicus, and Galileo and Newton.And every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. " What say you ? Our or very lives more a circumstance of Fate than what we plan and construct as if building our own home. Echoes Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul. -- William Ernest Henley