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“Do we have free will? or our life is predestined to happen.”

Do you know the theory about coin flipping? The coin will always land on the same face no matter how many times you do it if you flip it with the same amount of force, direction, area, and the same outside stimulus.

What if our life is the same as flipping the coin but with much more thing involve?

Every one of us will have at least one moment of “If I know this, I should have done that” or “If I know that, I wouldn’t do it.” But do we make that decision? Or we follow some universal algorithm of cause and effect we know nothing about it.

Let’s think about it for a second and answer this question.

If you can reset your life for one day, including your knowledge about it, won’t you doing the same thing over and over again because it’s what you’ll do in those circumstances?

If your answer is a yes, then won’t you just follow some pattern defined by everything that happens before since the birth of the universe?

And this also happens to everything, not just you and me, animals, objects, laws of physics, etc. Everything and everyone will do the thing they do in the same pattern if every variable involved is also the same.

So here’s the thing, if this happens to everything, doesn’t it mean that we all do what we do because we react and following the first cause since the beginning?

After reading this, you may ask, “Hey! what about a successful person, if what you’re saying is true that that means they just born lucky?”

Well, maybe. If everything is predestined to happen because of something that happens before, does that mean those successful people are already successful since the beginning of time?

But

I didn’t talk about all that so you and I will feel like our life is a worthless speck of dust in this big universe and your life is going to suck no matter what. No! After all, we don’t smart enough to crack this universal pattern and learn what will happen in the future, right?

What I want to say is that even though we can’t know for sure whether we’re the ones in control of our life or not. One thing for certain is that we still feel like we’re the ones in control. We’re the one that still feels those joys, happiness, and sorrow in our life.

So, no matter it’s a higher being, the laws of nature and universe, or just us that sit in this giant roller coaster we so call life. We’re the ones sitting in the front seat, and we’re the ones that will get up and leave when this ride of our life is over.

So what should we do with our lives? We live! Through the scariest part and the best, from the slowing start to the massive 90-degree drop, we scream at the top of our lung when everything spins out of control and enjoy the view when we reach the top again.

Our life is like a giant roller coaster who cares if it has an invisible rail we follow without knowing or not. If we only have two ways out of it, one is Jump, and the other is sit there until the end, then why don’t we take the opportunity and enjoy the show until the end? And maybe when we finish our ride, we will know that we’re the ones in control of our life or not.