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Fate vs. Free Will

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  Fate vs. free will is a heavily debated topic with extreme ambiguity. It is this ambiguous nature that prevents many, including myself, from believing that life is consistent on just fate or just free will. Personally, I think that there is a balance between the two. Everyday is full of decisions that you can control like what to eat for breakfast, what to wear, whether or not to study for a test, etc. However, I think that when it comes to the larger things in life, fate plays a role. I believe that there is a plan for our lives, one that we don’t have complete control over. For example, we are currently in the process of applying to college. Where we apply is our choice, our free will, however, where we get accepted to is out of our control. The story of Oedipus explores fate and free will, challenging its audiences' perspectives. When I first read the story, I believed it was fate that led him to killing his father and marrying his mother. However, as I have reread it and t...
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Family

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  The other day I mentioned to my mom that I really like cotton candy grapes. I came home from school the next day to find three bags of cotton candy grapes in my fridge. It turns out my mom went to two different stores and spent an hour and a half looking for those grapes. This is love. I took the core values test and my results revealed that one of my main values is my family. It was honestly a very difficult test to take because I was forced to choose between things that I highly value like health, honesty, love, family, and financial security. However, while I may want to be healthy and have financial security, I need my family, and this is what set my family apart from the other core values. For me, my family is a necessity, a nonnegotiable, something I cannot live without.                   My mom often reminds me that friends will come and go, but family is forever. My mom is one of the on...
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