You are fate.
The fairy tales and legends of old were right. Our lives are determined by fate. We are indeed fated to do or act in a certain way. The old fables tell of the hero who is destined to carry out a certain act, or meet a certain end. And it happens exactly as the seer, witch, goddess or prophet had foretold. The hero meets the same prescribed end. And so, for millennia, men believed in fate, in the irreversible, non-negotiable power of the gods. Shakespeare tells us in his famous play, King Lear, that “as flies to wanton boys, so are we to the gods. They kill us for sport.”
But!
What is fate? Who is fate? Who are the “gods” that manipulate our lives and warp our free will like a computer hacker would take over their victim’s computer, corrupt the files and the entire system and network, making them behave like the hacker wants? Who are these supposedly supernatural forces that predestine our lives? Who direct our steps and cause us to unwittingly move in the manner and direction that they chose?
Brief answer: YOU. You are the gods that fated you to act in a certain way. The god is the man, woman, boy, girl, that you see when you look in the mirror. You are it! You are the god that foretold your future, and carried out your own prophesy with exactitude!
So how come the characters in our plays and fables end up the same way that the gods foretold?
Because of believe.
It is clear that the prophecies only came to pass because these characters believed it, started thinking like the gods, and took action that confirmed what the gods had supposedly said. But all along, they weren’t aware that they were simply obeying their own thoughts and beliefs. Their free will was always theirs. No magical, supernatural god moved their hands and feet and compelled them to go and act in ways that resulted in the prescribed outcomes.
The gods were their own thinking.
The action was spurred by their own thoughts. They were obeying their own minds, heeding their own counsel, and being true to themselves, all the while convinced that they were hapless participants who were simply fulfilling the inexorable wishes of the gods .
Man makes his world.
Since we are fate, then it stands to reason that we also make our own environment. The average person is molded by their environment. But the superior people are different. They may be impacted by their environments, but they are not altogether overwhelmed by it. They still retain a part of themselves that is untouched, and remains apart from their environment. These are the people who will change their world. They can reach into the unspoiled parts of themselves, to the inner man that hasn’t succumbed to the challenges around them, and from there, draw forth fresh material to remake their environment and create the world that they want. These are the greats, these are the people who remake themselves, and consequently their world, and oftentimes, ours, too.
They demonstrate that we are fate. That que sera sera isn’t true, because we make it so. We make our world.
We are the gods.