Man is architect of his own fate

Today we see the craftiness of man almost all over the world since he has reshaped his

environment, re-engineered his living and re-invented the meanings of life. So, man’s fate is no

exception to this phenomenon. God has sent man on this earth owing him with mandate to write

down on the wall of his fate with the acts and deeds he performs. His mind is mentor who tells him

what the consequential shape will appear over the actions he orchestrates. He cannot blame

anything as predestined bound to himself. A centuries-old but abiding writer, Shakespeare, also said:

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,

But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

So, fate, good or bad and progressive or regressive, is determined by man’s own activity or,

at times, inactivity towards life. The basic thing that derives him towards action or inaction is “ the

approaches towards life” i.e. balanced approach, extreme approach and static approach. Man with

balanced approach always avoid being polar and choose the balanced way, like all the successful

personalities of the world, to shape his fate on the progressive lines. Whereas, man with extreme

approach, whether he is intellectual or illiterate, will come across bad fate at the hands of his

extreme choices like Dr. Faustus, a highly intellectual person, meets a bad fate though his ambitions

were not bad. Third category of people lives a very deplorable and regressive life. They are always in

waiting for a godot to alter their fate and do nothing. They are spiritless, sluggish rather parasitic. In

conclusion, a balanced approach towards life is the prerequisite of good fate. (272 words excluding

title)