Destiny essay examples

At each pivotal point, a person who chooses the wrong action may affect their whole life and change the man he would be. In the poem Invictus the text states “It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.”

In your life you can’t control everything that happens but you can control your attitude and your actions; which can affect your ability to reach your destiny. So therefore it can be argued that life is a mixture of both one’s control and destiny. One might argue that we are in control of each of our destiny’s. This is shown in the poem Invictus.

Destiny is not always a set outcome but can be changed anytime in your life. An example would be in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian. When Junior, a child with a disability, is born into poverty and alcoholism but through a series of choices and circumstances presented he is able to change his destiny.

In the article of The Sports Gene, it was Thomas’s destiny to find his high jump talent. He couldn’t control whether or not he was going to be challenged by a kid one day. You could say it was destiny that helped him discover his talent. However, it was his decision to build on and continue that talent.