Fortitude Against Fate

Throughout history, we have read from countless lippy critics that a character at one point, 'tempts' fate. A vast amount of people don't have the fortitude to conquer fate. Although hopeless quantities of beings fight the twins called Destiny and Fate, many fail in their quest to alter something that is inevitably predetermined. In they end, they sulk away trying to devise excuses as to why they lost to Lady Luck.

Many people believe in destiny, be it fate, karma, Moira, kismet, chance, luck, or fortune. They all have the same pseudonym. Righteously so, I would like to ask who came to the conclusion eons ago that Destiny alone can decree the cause of events to befall a person before they actually happen, and why this fate is stubborn enough to remain unchanged despite our efforts. Although a myriad of mankind accredit this unknown ultimate agency by which the order of things are presumably prescribed, I disbelieve this chaps prophetic declarations. I don't need some oracle telling me I'm going to fall in love with some "tall, dark, and handsome man", or that I'm going to "meet my end in a few days in an utterly gruesome way". No, thats just a load of crap from a bunch of gypsies trying to earn a few more coins on top of the many they've probably already pick-pocketed from you. Never trust those decrepit fortune tellers with their curtain-coats and basket-ball sized hoop earrings. Haven't you ever wondered why there are lottery numbers on the back of the slips of paper inside a fortune cookie? Its all a conspiracy!! So run while you can!

Now to put it plain and simple, my karma ran over your dogma, and thats all there is to it!
~Chiko