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Posted 2004-07-01, 12:21 PM
To quote a monologue from Max Payne 2:

"Vlad was right. There are no choices. Nothing but a straight line. If you had done something differently, it wouldn't be you, it would be someone else looking back, asking a different set of questions. The illusion comes afterwards, when you ask 'why me?' and 'what if?' when you look back, see the branches, like a pruned Bonsai tree, or a forked lightning."

I could easily list a number of incidents when "freak accidents", or maybe just minute conincidences resulting in meeting some person, have changed my life greatly. Personally, afterwards, I don't see how those things *couldn't* have happened. It just... No. I believe in fate to some extent. While I can still make choices, I think life gears itself in certain directions, and you're bound to get what you deserve, eventually.

What do YOU think?
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