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Originally Posted by FeyOberon

Oops, sorry, I thought it was a saying -- someone who does something rash is said to be "tempting fate." I'll have to try to remember to look that up.

I definitely see your point. Some things are just inevitable. But for me, it's the things that I do have the power to influence that really matter -- the choices. So much of life is dictated by choices made along the way . . . .

I would love to read the poem.

The Road Not Taken


Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

(This is what started the argument in class)

Yeah I also agree with choices, but fate is also in the end of a choice.