This picture of an angel praying with a pretty flower reminds me of Paradise Lost by John Milton. This symbol of praying and being devout beside something so elegant as a freshly-opened flower is like Heaven and the Garden of Eden. In Paradise Lost, it tells of Satan who fell from Heaven and Adam and Eve who fell from the Garden of Eden. All three were cast from their paradises after making choices with their free will. I am glad for free will, to allow me to make my own choices. Although there could be such thing as Fate, I believe we also help to control our destinies and that we have the power to change our future if we try very hard. As we wrote in class in a free write about Fate and free will, I am starting to notice more events occuring around me that seem to be Fate. The other day as I was going to meet some friends to go running by Okanagan Lake, my dad convinced me to quickly go over to London Drugs to look at a laptop. We went in for about five minutes, and then he walked home and I drove down main street and was hit by an elderly lady trying to change lanes without shoulder checking. This seems to me like something intended by Fate, for whatever reason, as I had already made plans to go running and did not, in the slightest, feel like going to the store, and yet, there I was with a scratched and dented car, talking to two elderly women who had just been going to the car wash. Some things may happen by mere chance; some things happen because of our choices; others happen because of Fate.
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