FATE ?

Is reality a lie
The ultimate illusion
Is our destiny unknown
Or a forgone conclusion
If our fate it be sealed
Even before we arrive
Just what then is the point
Of us being alive
Are we all mere actors
On a stage thats foresaken
Can the last step be known
Before the first step is taken
If we could see our tomorrows
There would be no mystery
Surely the future
Is not written in
History

I am free and freely and responsibly making the future - so far as I am concerned. You others are equally free. On that theory I find my life will work, and on a theory of mechanical predestination nothing works. 
   H.G.Wells