Throughout this past month we have discussed a lot about the topics of fate and chaos theory. We began by reading "Oedipus" which was about a king who was destined by the Gods to the fate of marrying his mother and killing his father. As a baby when his parents heard of his fate, they left him on the side of a mountain in order to get rid of him so that he didn't have to live up to this terrible fate. Although he had been raised and lived with a different family, he still ended up killing his birth father and marrying his birth mother. In my opinion the Gods gave him this fate because they knew that as a human being he would try to do everything he could to escape it. Then, by trying to escape and avoid it he would end up making it real and living up to this fate. If he had not done anything to avoid it, it seems as though he would not have been in that situation at the end of the story. During this month we also talked about chaos theory. This is essentially the belief that most things are caused by slight actions or small decisions in your life. We watched a very interesting movie which showed different ways that a situation could have played out based on some small decisions or actions done by the characters involved.
I find myself to agree more with chaos theory and the fact that we really have majority of the control in our life. However, I also believe that there are some things that no matter what we do, they will always happen because they were meant to happen. A current example of this in my life is right now while I am going through my college application process. I have made it a goal of mine to attend one of our country's military academy's for college and I just had my first interview with the Senator in order to get a nomination for one of the academy's yesterday. I do not believe that it was already planned out for me whether or not I am to attend one of these academy's, however I do believe that it has been planned out for me to attend some type of college and further my education in some way beyond high school. I have already been accepted into a good college and I believe that my acceptance into that college has absolutely no effect on my getting accepted to an academy. Just as in the movie we watched, the man, Mr. Meyers, got into a car accident in every scenario we saw, I believe that my acceptance into this college is that one thing that was fated to happen in my life at this time. However, my acceptance into one of the military academy's heavily depends on many interviews that I will have with many officials. I believe that it is in my hands whether or not I succeed in these interviews and that I am the one able to control whether or not I am able to get into one of these academies. Basically, I very much agree with the concept of chaos theory, however I also would agree that there a certain events in our life that we really don't have much control over and are simply fated to happen.
