Everything happens for a reason.

In the last chapter of the One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Aureliano finally deciphers the prophecy. In doing so we see the story of the Buendía family come completely full circle. It tells the story from the past and the present, becoming apparent that they were destined the fate they’d been handed all along. Everything was predestined. Predestination is defined as “the divine foreordaining of all that will happen.” I personally do not believe in predestination; I think we are all in control of our lives and actions, however I do believe that everything happens for a reason. I think based off the choices we make in life, certain events happen. However I think that fate is fate and destiny is destiny, so we all will ensnared up exactly where and how we belong, and our actions in life will come full circle. Take the college process, for example. We all got in our heads about where we want to go and where we might get in. We worry and stress about how this is “the biggest decision of our lives” and how it “determines our futures”. And yes, it will obviously effect how certain parts of your life play out, there never is a right or wrong. Wherever we all go is where we’re meant to be, and if it’s not and let’s say you transfer, you’re still ending up where you belong anyway. Let’s say you don’t get into your dream school, yes it may be sad, but it may just be exactly what you need to get to where you actually belong. Maybe you wouldn’t have been able to graduate from that dream school, or something horrible went wrong. Yes we are in control of our actions in life, from simple things like what we were in the morning to who we marry. But all of our experiences wrapped up together play hand in hand to provide us with are true destiny and purpose in this life.