All that I know is that I know nothing. I guess everyone has to start somewhere. I think that freewill/the choices we make leads us to our fate. Unfortunately, there is no way to prove this theory of mine, so how can I know if it is true. Fate sucks, man! It's a viscous cycle of knowing and understanding, which leads to answerless questions. They say that knowledge is power. Well, this unit has proved to me that knowledge only makes us aware of how incredibly naive we are. Now do I not only doubt my ability to spot motifs in a play written hundreds of years ago, but I also doubt my life "plan". If I don't have control over it, and I don't know who has control over it, what the heck am I doing here??!!!!!! The words "aimless wondering" just popped into my head. The one thing I am completely sure of is that how we react to situations filled with the unknown determines who we are. Who the heck cares what your accomplishments and failures are. All people should really care about is who you are as a person, what are your good qualities. This kind of leads to responsibility. Will you take responsibility for being a part in the action, or will you run away screaming, trying your best to deny what happened?
My number one question is- does your fate depend on your responsibility/who you are. Take Harold Crick, for example. He changed his fate by merely accepting it with grace. That is the kind of person Harold Crick is. But Oedipus didn't have that luxury, and he accepted his fate. A little too late, maybe. And we're back. A VISCOUS CIRCLE. What depends on what? That is my real question.
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it's nice idea to think that we can arbitrate someones character by ones "good qualities" but it seems a bit callow to me. There are plenty of admirable folks who do fail to do the admirable thing and it you're that it doesn't take away from their virtue but it definitely reflects on them and shouldn't be disregarded because they have integrity. Like Oedipus, the noblest king of them all. Regardless of whether or not he knew the man on the road was his father, he allowed pugnacious temper to overcome him and that was wrong. It doesn't overshadow his nobility it adds depth to his personality, perhaps negatively. Either way his failures do shed light into his character and just as an average persons failures should be accounted for.
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