Essay #17

bell word: believe TS: disagreeing with Cassius, i am not the master of my fate in any way, shape, or form SD: never have been, hopefully never will be CM: i say hopefully because i like to be surprised in my life CS: I do believe that everything happens for a reason, I just don't know what that reason is. First Body Paragraph: echos: have confidence in, regard as true TS: I strongly believe in fate, or that everyone has a "predetermined course" SD: our lives are planned out before we even begin the journey CM: and when we are born, God just sits back and watches our lives pan out CM: he sees everything and knows what we aer going to do before we do it SD: that there is a purpose behind everything and everything has a reason to occur CM: when bad things happen, we learn from our mistake and it makes us stronger CM: when good things happen we learn that the right choices bring us good fate SD: if there was no reason behind things, life would be pointless CM: our lives would be a random mass of events put together CM: no path for our lives to follow CS: fate means that everything happens for a reason, and I agree with that Second Body Paragraph: echos: trust, convinced TS: even though we have a predetermined course, that doesn't mean that our actions can't change the path a little SD: fate may be pre-decided, but our actions can change it's course CM: fate is just the outline of what happens in your life CM: what you fill it with is your decision SD: we all have a choice to avoid making bad judgements, sometimes the bad things are more tempting and appealing than the good CM: even if something bad happens though, we can learn from it CM: when we don't learn from our mistakes is when things are bad SD: i know that in my own life every little thing has a purpose CM: whether its having a fight with a friend or stubbing my toe CM: thats just the way things are CS: how we choose to direct our fate is in our hands Closing Paragraph: echos: have faith TS: I suppose in a way we can be the masters SD: not of our fate, but of what you fill it with CM: we can work with what we get CS: we cannot control fate, but we can help it along sometimes Simone English 9 Mr. H. Salsich April 6

The Art of Mastering Fate:

An Essay on My Thoughts on Fate

Disagreeing with Cassius, I believe that I am not the master of my fate in any way, shape, or form. I never have been and I hopefully never will be. I say hopefully because I would never want a cookie-cutter life, I would want surprises every now and again. I believe that everything happens for a reason, I just don't know what that reason is. I have strong confidence in fate, or that everyone has a "predetermined course". If we didn't have fate, there would be no justification in life. Our lives you just be an arbitrary accumulation of events all put together. There would be no path for our lives to follow and we would end up crashing. I believe that there is a purpose behind life and that everything has a reason to occur. When bad things happen, we learn from our mistakes and it makes us stronger. When good things happen, we learn that the right choices bring us good fate. Our lives are planned out before we even begin the journey, and when we are born, God just sits back, pleasureably presses play, and then watches our lives pan out. He watches all of the good decisions we make and all the bad decisions we make, knowing what we are going to do before we even do it. Seeing everything we do and don't do, observing everything fault and mistake we make in our lives, hoping that we learn from them, he watches cautiously. Fate means that everything happens for a reason, and I regard that statement as true. Even though we have a pre-arranged course of life, that doesn't mean that our actions can't change the path a little. Our fate may be already decided, but I trust our actions can impact it. Fate is just the outline of what is supposed to happen within your life. However, what you fill it with is completely up to you. I am convinced that we all have the chance to avoid making bad discernments, but sometimes bad things are more tempting than the good things in life. Even if sometimes bad things happen, we can still hopefully learn from our mistakes. When we stop learning from our mistakes, thats when we should start to stew. I know that in my own life everything has a purpose, effecting the next things to come in my journey, pushing it's impact into my everyday activities, interrupting the natural flow of things, just to make sure that fate meets me again one day. Whether it is a fight with my friend, or merely stubbing my toe, I know that later on in my life those things are going to have an effect because everything falls into fate's fingers. That is just the way things are. Fate may not be completely up to us, but how we choose to direct it is in our hands. I suppose, in a way we can be the masters. Certainly not of our fate, but what we fill it with. I have faith that no matter what life gives you, you can always work with it; mold it to make it your own. We can definitely not control our fate, but we can help it along sometimes. SELF-ASSESSMENT: 1) An issue that I am continuing to work on is making longer sentences. A lot of my sentences are short and right to the point, and I think that I could move around the syntax a little more. 2) A weak point that I see in this essay is my second body paragraph. I think that it was difficult for me to word the sentences within my chunks. 3) A strong point in my essay my introduction paragraph. I think I did a good job using the paragraph to open up into the rest of my essay. 4) I would give myself a B+ on this essay.