Do you believe in fate? Do you believe that a greater power has a predetermined outcome for you life? Well, I do not. I do not believe that something or someone has already set out a path for me to travel, and has preconceived all of my thoughts, and dreams. To believe that my aspirations will not mean even the slightest in the future scare me. Where did all of my hard work disappear to? Living a life fearing fate is not a life for me. In my short seventeen years of life I have come to realize I live for myself and for the well being of others around me and I do not need a higher being to tell me what is right or what is wrong. For others that might be the case. I do not live to go somewhere better after life, I live to make this somewhere better, and I did not need a god to help me realize that. I base my life along the lines of philosopher John Paul Sartre and his theory "act is everything," I have realized that my actions, words, and deeds shape the person I will grow to become. I believe that I control my own destiny, my actions will dictate weather or not I will succeed in life. But if not, I will live knowing that I made my life what it has become, and know that I could do everything to change it. However, although a higher being does not live inside of me, I don't not disagree with the fact of a higher being living inside others. A God creates a self-sufficiency that one may live by to better his or her life-style, a give one a reason for living. To live for now and worry about tomorrow when tomorrow comes is how I've become the person I have become.
             "Act is everything", the Aristotelian that John Paul Sartre adopted as his philosophy counters the religious idealistic of "God's plan". Living by the philosophy, "act is everything", expresses that one acts upon a feeling, and a god has no control over the act on which occurred. For example, one acts upon the situation th...