Where the road takes you.

Lets talk about fate. Once transient thoughts, it just had to persist in the mind this very instant. If determinism has its way, my future's already so well pre-ordained I no longer have to worry about it anymore. Working hard's part of the equation, since what you reap is what you sow. Minus the environmental factors that influence one's life (and the unforseen circumstances that's bound to crop up during exams), I can pretty much expect the outcomes, outcomes not just for my exams, but other things as well.

If the way we play out our lives were akin to roads that diverge, and converge, then there must have been too numerous the number of crossroads to count. After all... Its kind of interesting to think that IF we were to choose left not right, to choose a path unexplored not well-trodden, how drastically different environments we would find ourselves in. The scenery we see along the way, the people that share the same roads at that very instance in your life, everything would turn out just:

Different.

IF we were that able to choose, then goodbye to determinism! Yet no it ain't that way after all. I didn't take notice, and sides, everyone would most certainly be caught up in their own worlds at points in their life, oblivious to the others journeying past the same crossroads. In short, enviroment matters so much, and we don't actually take notice until events pop right in front of you. Thats how distracted we all are, thats regrets. Well! haha no time to comtemplate what deterministic outcomes there would be if we were to choose (wearing shoes or slippers) (sleeping or mugging) (thinking or not thinking).

If we just can't get our way in life, then enjoy the scenery while you're at it! Let our feet shuffle along, let our minds wonder (& wander), let our senses take in the sights and sounds. & meanwhile we can always hope!