Are you fatalistic?

[ChildOfLove]

I'm curious to know if there are other people out here who share this mindset. Do you think everything that's happened to you—the good and the bad—happened because it was meant to? That no matter what you'd do to try and change the outcome, it would have found a way to happen anyway?
If you do believe in fate, how does it affect the way you view life's events? And if you don't, how do you make sense of the things that happen to you?

I personally would say I am pretty fatalistic. This kind of mindset really helps me with accepting everything that happens to me. I think that whatever is meant to happen is already predestined. For example, if I were destined to recover from my various struggles, there would inevitably come a moment when I'd want to get better and take steps toward it—which is exactly what happened. There's no escaping it. And again, it wasn't just by chance that I survived my suicide attempts despite my methods being what I thought were flawless. It makes me feel like my survival was meant to happen, that something beyond me had already decided I wouldn't die then.

 

[Forever Sleep]

Sometimes I like to think like this. Especially when bad things happen- this hope that good will still ultimately come out of them. That has happened in the past- to be fair.

But no- I don't truly hold with it. I think it could very well lull me into lazyness. As in- it's not my fault I don't want to find a job (I'm freelance so, that's a constant.) I feel like life is maybe 70-80% effort and 20-30% luck. I'm not sure I'm fated to make that effort or not. I feel like that's mostly a choice that I quite often have to force myself to make for 'the greater good'.

 

[SVEN]

Mostly; sort of "what's for you won't go past you," good or bad.