This I Believe

I believe in fate. I believe everything happens for a reason in our lives. The good and the bad things we as a people have gone through make us who we are. These things help mold who we may become for the good, depending on of what we make of them. If we choose to use the bad things we go through in life and use them as positive reinforcement, we can turn a tragedy into a success. For example, if slavery had not existed, people of African American descent may not have the drive they do now to defeat oppression and be more than what was originally expected of us. If black people weren’t so underestimated and belittled, then maybe we wouldn’t have had the ambition to have made such inventions as the stop light or even peanut butter. I think of myself as a living example of why things happen for a certain reason. From a person on the outside looking in, having parents that are divorced and having to live with my grandmother would have been a completely negative situation and have a damaging effect on my life, but contrary to popular belief, it has made me stronger. This unfortunate situation has allowed me to gain motivation to want to make my life better. It has given me the insight to be grateful for the little things that I do have. One disadvantage can lead to the opening of a new and even better advantage in the future.
Fate is what makes us wonder what if. If we chose to do some things differently than our entire future could perhaps change, but I believe the conclusion of our lives will still be the same. Fate can lead to many other things like love. It could be by fate that we keep running into that same person. Fate catches up to us when we least expect it. I believe fate give us signs like that in life to let us know that it is present. Fate is what we make of it and what is meant to be and in this I do believe.