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I think that we choose our future because I could do anything with my life and its not set in stone. God has a plan for everyones life but that does not mean it will happen.

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Soulmates work with or without fate or free will. regardless if someone is made to be with someone else. There is most likely someone that will be perfect for someone else in the world. Just with how many people there are. In addition, if you choose to take a stance more based in fate, then soulmates also exist. -Rick

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I think that our decisions decide what happens because if you make poor decisions then you life will be miserable and you will be doing the wrong thing

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If fate determined my future then I would go jump off a cliff and if I was fated to live I would live and see if I really was controlled by fate.

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I believe that soulmates are real and that God created a person for everyone. But your soulmate could either be romantic or platonic.

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I disagree with this because at a young age one does not necessarily know what true love is. This means that we are unable to have this if we don't know what true love is. It could not be in your fate to be with this person so you could think that your love is real even when it is not.

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I think fate doesn't determine my future because I have control over what happens in my life, the choices I make affects my future not fate. My own choices cause my own future.

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Your actions lead to your future. There is not may instances where one has no choice; typically there's more than one road to go down. For example, one can make the decision to study and do well of their test or not study and fail their test. Each instance would lead to a different result, and therefore different future. Both these instances were choices of free will. -Anna

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The future is something that everyone is afraid of and would like to change. Life would be so much better and carefree if that were the case. However, if we were to determine our future, certian things won't happen. Most of the time good or bad things happen for a reason. And if that could be changed then there would always be something to try and prevent it.

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I think we may have other impacts on our future but ultimately we decide it and our actions do. Your decisions now have an impact on your future and how have control of what happens.

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I believe that our futures a determined by the choices we make. For example, I choose to not eat anything for lunch, but that means that I get really hungry later in the day. If our futures were determined by fate, we would have no control over our own lives.

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I think parents should let their kids live their own lives. Yes, they can say their opinion on who their kid marries, but they shouldn't be able to control that. That's a very important part of someone's life that they should be able to have full control of.
-Riley

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I don't think fate determines my future. I think that we all have our own paths that we choose, but those choices are based on our past experiences. Fate is something that is set in stone, but our future isn't fully decided for us because we can choose.

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I personally believe that somethings are "scripted." and that some things will always happen just with probablity. But I also believe that peoples futures are in general, fluid and ever changing. -Rick

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I believe that there is some substance to this argument due to the fact that we will react a certain way based off of our personalities. But at the same time I don't believe there is anything controlling whether or not you randomly get hit with a meteor when your 23.

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Are future changes based on the decisions we make. You can really do whatever you want and receive the consequence for your action.

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I do not think that this statement is accurate because fate and future and not tied together. Our fate is what is supposed to happen to us but that doesn't always happen to us. Someimes our fate changes because of our future.

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I believe that soulmates are not real. I think this as when 2 people are in love they may think that they are soulmates but then later drift apart. Which then means they weren't soulmates and that therefore who we love must be randomized by something else.
-Marina Vigil

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I do believe that our own choices determine our lives. Our fate is the consequence of our actions. Everything that happens is because our choices was the cause. Fate is simply based off of our choices. -Sophie

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Fate does not control a person's life, they make their own choices. While past experiences can play a role in our future, we ultimately get to make the decision on how we live and what our future will look like.
-Lacey

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I think fate determines my future because every has had a consequence since the beginning of time, so why would I not have had my fate already determined since the second I entered the world.

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I believe that even though everyone eventually reaches fate, it shouldn't affect the way we spend our time on Earth. People can still do whatever they want without letting the weight of fate drag them down.

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I agree with this statement because no matter what, the future goes on. Fate could be anything that occurs, and whatever happens, could be described as fate. - Olivia

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I would live my life differently because if everything was set in stone determined by fate I wouldn't need to worry about making decisions. I would be living my life care free.

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You could meet the love of your life then make a bad decision then you are forced to lose your soulmate

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Everyone has a soul mate they just might never find them. Everyone has someone they are ment for and they just have to find them.

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If fate determines my future, then I might as well go along with fate. Its not much different to me if I dont have a choice to fufill destiny or if I do. And also, if it is fated, then I cant do anything differently, becausse I was always fated to act the was I did -Rick

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I believe that who a person choses to marry should be their choice alone. No one should dictate who a person can or cannot love. A person has the right to love whoever they want, whether their parents agree or not.

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I think that we choose what we want to do in the future and fate really has nothing to do with it. We make our own decisions and that contributes to our future.

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I do not think that the future is set in stone, like fate, and that the choices we make every day change the course of our life. We have the power to control our own lives and what happens to us.
-Ava

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Our future is decided by our own choices, not by fate. Of course, there are factors beyond our control that may influence our choices, but every action we take is our own individual decision. We make a conscious decision everyday that is of our own free will, not fate.

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Our parents should have a say in our marriage but not be over controlling. The parents should have met the significant other and gotten to know them. This leads to the parents and people being married to have closer ties than if the parents just say no because the person is not good enough for their kid.

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I may live my life differently if I KNEW the fate that determined my future but I wouldn't change how I live just because things are already set to be a certain way.

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I would agree with this statement because if what you did didnt matter in life then what would be the point. I think many people would act different as well.

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IF we knew that our fate determined our future we would most likely be afraid of what our future holds and want to change it. Because no future is perfect and there would be some ups and downs and things we didn't like that would scare us into trying to change it. But the reality is our fate doesnt determine it.

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I would live my life differently if I knew that what would happen to me was set in stone. I would want to make my own choices and have more freedom of my own life, instead of being forced into something I don't like. - Olivia

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Your parents should not have a say in who you marry because your parents wont be in love with who you are in love with so therefore you should be able to choose who you marry

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I disagree because I believe fate already determines our futures. I would just live life how I already do.

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I agree that fate determines my future because everything that happens in a person's life can influence their future. Meaning, that if an event is going to happen, let it happen because it was mean to be. The best way to look at it is everything happens for a reason, and there's nothing you can do to change that.

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True love is not something one just wakes up and declares. It cannot be achieved from one experience or relationship. True love is discovering what it means personally to you and what is doesn't mean. You can't gain this sort of understanding from just one love, or one experience. It takes multiple tries to find something as "perfect" as true love, and you probably won't even find something perfect. It's a matter of getting as close as you can get. -Anna

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While we have the ability to make our own choices and change our future, we never have full control over it. Unpredictable circumstances will come up at some point in your life, and they will also change the way you live. While you do have some control over you future, you can't control everything. -Lacey

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I think that their is someone in the world who 'clicks' the best with your personality therefore being your soulmate or the best person for you.

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I feel that soulmates aren't real because people could shape their own feelings, it doesn't need to be known right at the beginning. Over time people could create feelings that were never there before. They could dislike a person at first but then become accustomed to them over time and develop feelings.

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If fate determined my future I would definitely be more carefree and take more risks. I might as well take the risk because I know that fate is where my life is heading no matter what.

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I would live differently if fate determined my future. I would put far less worry into my decisions since I know that no matter what I do, it will turn out the same way, since it is destined to come true.

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I do not agree with this statement. Fate is a very perspective-driven subject and I do not fully support the notion that it determines our future. Life isn't written for us already. Everyone is fully capable of making their own decisions and what is caused as a result of these decisions or certain circumstances many believe to be fate, as life is anything but predictable. - Grace Frye

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I don't think fate controls my future because it's my own decisions that do. My choices and actions and the things that happen around me are what make my life the way that it is and none of that is fate.
-Riley

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I believe that there is someone for everyone but there is no true thing as a soulmate. We find people who are compatible with us but I do not consider these people to be soulmates. We have someone to spend the rest of our lives with, but they are not soulmates. These people are the people who we feel the most love towards. -Sophie

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If this were the case then everything would already be set and stone so you would never have to worry. You already have a plan on how your life is going to be so there is no reason to not just live life.

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I think that this statement is true because there will always be someone out there that is right for you. Even if you don't find them right away or even never, they are out there.

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I dont think parents should have the final say, but they definitely should have some influence, just because they know about marriage. They have experience, and they might foreseen an outcome you do not. -Rick

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Parents should let us live our own lives and let go of us. We can make our own desisions and we dont their input. They should step in however if we are marrying for the wrong reasons.

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This statement is false because as a child you see people at friends not love interests so you dont understand what true love is at a young age

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I think that it may seem like your soulmate is the only person you can ever be with, but there can be multiple people that you could be with. There may be someone your supposed to be with, but that doesn't mean they are your soulmate.

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I agree that we are in full control of our futures because we make choices all the time in our lives. Even if these choices are influenced we still make them ourselves based on our own morales and our past experiences. With our each and every choice we make our future becomes shaped into what it is supposed to be.

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If fate determined my future, then I would live my life completely different than to what it is now. I am mostly in control of my actions and my decisions that could make a significant difference in the future.

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I think that your parents help raise you into a person who can support themselves and contributes in a positive way to society but they should not have power over your personal choices in life apart from things to keep you safe and make you a better person.

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Since romantic feelings are just your brian telling you when you find a person atractive, I do belive that love is possible at any age. I mean it doesn't even need to be romantic love. I truly love my parents and my friends. At the end of the day true love is just a bunch of homones in your brain, so why can't it exsist at any age.

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If fate determined my future then I would just live any way I wanted to. If I did something bad, hopefully fate would save me or help me. Living this way would also scare me because I wouldn't know what would happen next.
-Riley

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You have control for your future it just depends on how hard you work and how much you want to have a good future

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I disagree because you might find someone you love but I don't think that prevents you from ever loving again and even people who love eachother a lot still have fights and disagree. Love is a very fragile thing, it isn't perfect but that's why you have to focus on the good. Love takes time, your never going to know right away if you love them you have to get to know them.

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I disagree because people are not perfect, so you will never find someone completely perfect for you. There is no completely perfect relationship, every relationship has it's ups and downs.

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Ultimately, we all have our own feeling and opinions. Even if you love somebody very much and think they are your soulmate there are always differences that can spread the two apart. This is just the way humanity is.

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I believe that soulmates are real. There is without a doubt somebody out there in the world whose personality and traits are ideally suited for you, thus making them your soulmate.

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Someone can control their life no matter what it is, be it having toast for breakfast and such, but some things trigger a domino effect of things. Like, say I eat pizza every day and don't exercise. I would get overweight not because I want to be but because that's just how it works as I decided not to exercise.
-Marina Vigil

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I think that we should choose who we marry. Parents can have an opinion about who you should marry, but they should not be the one making the decision because it is who we have to live with forever, not them.

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If fate controlled my future, then I would be doing different things in my life than I am doing now. If I knew for sure there was a plan for me out there then I would probably be less careful about my life because the things that are planned are going to happen no matter what I do.
-Ava

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Everyone finds a soulmate and that means that they are meant to be with each other. Things like this can't be changed, if a person is compatible with another then it just is meant to be. In life, there is a person for everyone so yes, soulmates are real.

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Parents should not be able to control or force who we marry. Everyone one is their own individual, so forcing ideals upon someone else isn't appropriate. The one we marry should be based on who we like, not our parents.

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Parents play an important role to their children so they should have a say in who their children marry. Parents want their children to be comfortable with the person they marry. Parents   may see certain aspects of a person that their children don't. Their should consider the person without bias.
-Sophie

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I believe that when people are young they can't comprehend what love is and only recognize the lust they may feel for someone and not a connection on a deeper level than looks and being nice.

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Yes they should have some say in who I marry, just not complete control. My parents approval would play a big part because I trust them the most and understand that they are going to help me make the right decision.

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Parents/guardians can have an opinion on who you marry and can give some good advice. But they shouldn't be the ones making the decision. that decision is between you, your spouse, and God.

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I agree with this because fate leads us to do things to determine our futures. Fate leads us to decide what we will do and to make our own choices. We are determined to be something but can change the way we get there, but will still get to the determined state.

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Like some say, "There is someone for everyone." Everyone has that one person in life that will always be there for them and will always love them as a soulmate does.

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I disagree with this because kids don't really understand true love. Instead, they understand that they love their parents, and their parents love them but it isn't until they are older that they understand the true meaning on love.

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You have no idea what true love is in childhood and even in later years. You need to be alive enough to know the difference between true love and first love there is no such thing as love at first sight.

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Although you may think that someone is your soulmate, there are things that can always go wrong that prevents you from being with your "true love." There might be someone who one might say you are "meant" to be with but it may not always stay that way.

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I agree, but it changes based on what love is "true"

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I agree, but it changes based on what love is "true"

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I personally believe that its arbitrary what true love actually is. If two people are strongly infatuated with one anotehr, then is that true love? If two people love eachother, but then grow apart, then was is true love that deid? I think broadly, true love is any reciprecated love, regardless if it lives or not.

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Once you are older than 18, unless you are still depending on your parents, you should have the full right to free choice, and marriage is no exception. I should be able to live my own life at this point, and learn how to be fully independent when it comes to making my decisions.

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Parents have always been there for you and have raised you to become the person you are. Therefore, in an extremely important life decision like this they should have a say if the person joining your family is really a good person.

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I don't think that I would change anything about who I am or how I live my life. I mean I still want to believe that I know myslef enough to know what I want to do and how I want to act.

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When someone is at the point in their life that they feel they're ready to marry, they shouldn't have to rely on another's opinion on the matter. Marrying or not marrying depending on someone else's opinion would be a huge mistake, and one someone might regret later on. Now if a guardian offers helpful input or advice thats one thing; forcing a life commitment or lack thereof is another. A big decision such as marriage needs to be confidently determined by the one who has to live with that decision. -Anna

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I believe parents/guardians should not have a legal say in who you marry. But you should listen to your parents/guardians. They probably are only looking out for you when they comment on your love interest.

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While I think that parents should not predetermine your marraige or pick our a spouse for you, I think that they should at least have an opinion in who you do marry. I think they should be aloud to tell you honestly if they think your making the right decision becuase sometimes we are blinded by what we think is love and can make poor desicions .

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I disagree with this because many young people don't actually know if they are truly in love. They could be going through a phase or just wanting to be in love.

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Whereas you may have some choices in your life, you cannot control A, other peoples action and how they affect you, and B, random occurrences like getting hit by a meteor.

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I think we are in some control of what happens in our future because we can choose our own paths in life, but some things do happen by chance. This means that we aren't in control and total control of our future, only partial.

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I can choose what I want to do and I am not fated to do anything. I have complete free will and I can do what ever I want with my life.

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I believe that who you love is who you love and you can change that. Parents shouldn't have the power to tell you that you're not allowed to love someone and hold a future with them. It's not up to them, it's up to you.

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I think there's a person out in the world for everyone, you might just never find them. There's someone who will just click perfectly with everyone and that might be because of shared interests, feelings/ beliefs, or even events that happened in their lives.
-Riley

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I think that having a soulmate is part of your choice. Everyone can learn to be compatible and get along with someone else, however soulmates could be anyone you are willing to be with. No matter who it is, you could deem anyone as a soulmate as long as they make you feel a certain way, such as happiness. - Olivia

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True love isn't something that happens overnight, it is developed. Therefore, at a young age we don't know much about ourselves or other people yet so our emotions can change drastically. This means that we cannot have true love because we don't quite understand what that means yet.

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If fate controlled my future than I would live a lot more care free and wild. I would do this because fate would have a certain plan for me and lead me there no matter what path I take and how I got to the end goal. This results to me being able to listen to fate and allow them to guide me, or shape me into what I should become.

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Parents can have an influence in their child's expectations and morals when choosing someone to marry but, they shouldn't be the one to decide. Their child is the one that is living with their significant other for the rest of their life so it should be up to them. In addition, that is a crucial part of someone's fate and maybe future so they should make the right decision for themselves.

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Noone is in full control of anything (Except god if you believe in them). I am not in control of how tall I will be. How much money I can make, or anything like that. All I can do is try to influance it as best I can. -Rick

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I for sure agree with this statement. Nobody knows for certain what the future holds for them. A lot of the time people do what they want to in the moment or to prepare for the future, but if everyone knew what their fate was going to be, nothing could be done to change that. It is unlikely that one's perspective of life with an unknown future would stay the same if they knew their fate was sealed. - Grace Frye

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True love is something that I feel is developed when you are older. The reason being as a child you love a lot of stuff but not because you are genuinely in love but because you like that it's fun. But love is something beyond that it is something deep in 2 people's hearts when they have a truly deep connection.
-Marina Vigil

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If fate does determine my future, it wouldn't matter what decision I make, as everything is already set in stone. This means that I would be much more carefree about my actions, since the outcome cannot be changed.

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It takes time for one to understand what true love is and find the person that you are truly in love with. You can't just wake up one day and say that you're truly in love with someone when you don't even know the meaning of it.