Free Will or The Inevitable?
by Do you believe that we choose our own future? Or is it really true that everything, up to the most minute encounter, is predetermined, and that there are no accidents? Try stepping into both sides of the argument and see life through someone else’s eyes.
There will be one point in time, whether it’s when you’re working tirelessly at your cubicle, moving to another stage in life, or falling into the lush vegetation of the Amazon Rainforest without a parachute, that you will wonder if there is someone up there controlling, or messing with, your life. In the frustrating moments when you think that you’ve finally gotten it all together then BAM! Something else happens that throws you off balance. “Are you kidding me?” As I’ve often heard people say. What I don’t get is to whom they are saying it to.
Free Will?
Freedom is the so-called foundation of the world’s idea of peace. For centuries, our ancestors have fought for the very concept of equality and the right to choose the things that define what we make of ourselves. Now, it is about time to question freedom, not only in our country or society, but in our overall life. Do we really have the choice of what road we take and where we end up or do we really live according to a script in the play called Life?
The good thing about the notion of free will is that you believe you get to choose and you get what you want by your own doing. Everything that happens in your life is all because of you and no one else can take credit for your life’s joys, fortune, mistakes, grievances, and happy endings, should you ever have any. When you go through a rough patch and you emerge victorious, there is a feeling of pride and accomplishment that is irreplaceable. This is because you know you toiled and suffered at your own choice to achieve a reward of greater value than the hardships you endured. It’s kind of like a bargain at the flea market.
The thing about free will is that you only have yourself to blame for everything, and this forces uncertainty into the mind at some point after countless failures and disappointments. In Philosophy, free will is the doctrine that the conduct of human beings expresses personal choice and is not simply determined by physical or divine forces. That being said, in the belief of free will, we cannot cry out to anyone or blame them of our faults because it would be a contradiction of the belief.
Still, what if the belief of free will was merely an illusion created to make us ignorant of the existence of an all-powerful being? What if we were actually just puppets playing our role in a game for superior creatures who merely wanted realistic actors, thus resulting in the belief?
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