I Just Remembered I Had to Do This

So it is eleven at night at the moment and I just remembered that I forgot to do this (sorry). I was really sick this week and I took a lot of cold medicine. Okay yeah so this month we had an interesting discussion about fate. Is fate real or are we essentially just those tin metallic balls spinning around the arcade game pin-ball machines until we just fall through? I think this question is kind of disturbing because it makes you think about the universe as a whole. To clarify, it's almost like everyone has a string tied to them and we're all just walking around, colliding with each other, and making this ugly knot. That's chaos theory. And if I call my boyfriend right now at this very moment it could ruin his life. He won't get enough sleep, he'll go to college tomorrow, he'll fail a test, I'll have ruined his life because I called him at 11:11 PM. However, I don't believe in that. On the other hand you have predestined fate where we have no choice, no control over ourselves and the frightening reality that we are all pawns in a very lengthy game of chess. I don’t necessarily believe in that either. I believe that people are put in certain situations, good or bad, because God believes they will do what is right. Does this mean that only the bad things in our lives are God’s responsibility? I don’t think so. In my mind, everyone is in control of themselves. You can do whatever you want but it will not influence other people. In Oedipus, he fulfilled his own prophecy by trying to run away from it and became a pawn for the gods. I don't agree with this, although it was interesting that by choosing to discover his fate the gods ultimately punished him. If Oedipus really did not want to fall victim to his fate, he could have just not married anyone, not married a woman significantly older than him, or not killed anyone. In the end, I believe it was his choice. He felt that he was powerless and allowed himself to be in the situation.