22. Do you believe in fate/destiny?

A question I really wanted to answer from the questionnaire I posted a while ago. 

It's hard to say what I believe because I sometimes think that you are in control of your life and future and what happens is ultimately up to you and sometimes I believes that some things happen because they were meant to happen.

It's like a fight between the part of me that is realistic (and really boring quite frankly) and the part of me that wants to believe in magical things like fate.

I think I just really love the idea of something happening because it was supposed to happen , not because it was calculated and planned. Of course it's kind of unrealistic but there are some things you can't control and you just have to let it happen right? To me that's destiny because although something bad may of occurred, maybe it's suppose to be like that so better things can come or make you cherish the things that haven't changed.

I think, to a certain extent (my inner historian LOL) I believe there is such thing as fate. 70% of your life is in your control and a good 30% of is out of your hands. 

A part of me believes in fate, because I'd like to blame my misfortunes on something and that none of it is actually my fault and another part of me likes to believe in fate because I want good things to happen to me but I don't want actually achieve those things by myself and I'll just let life give me these good things LOL. Both really bad reasons for believing in fate, but I can't help myself. 

The thought of having so much control scares me and the idea of fate puts me to rest because then I feel like not everything is my fault.