My Random Thoughts

I was told once that everything happens for a reason, and apparently most people have heard that, and they use that same phrase to comfort themselves when anything goes wrong.  But these same people, the ones who say, “everything happens for a reason” do not believe in fate.  Instead they believe they truly have free will.  But if everything happens for a reason, then it is only logical to assume that it was meant to happen at that time and therefore it was their fate, which means that no matter what had happened previously it would happen anyway.  So do we have free will, or is everything predetermined? Does everything happen for a reason?             Obviously, there is no true way to test whether we truly have free will or not, however, in believing in fate one admits that there is something ‘out there’ bigger than themselves.  Therefore, in the belief of fate one inadvertently believes in a higher power.  Because there cannot be fate without something pulling the strings, someth