Fate and the Future

        Oedipus, the story of a man and his struggle through his own life. The never ending twist and turns that keep coming at him blind him from the problems facing him directly. We all know the story, a king and queen get a prophecy that their son will kill them, have a son, send him out in the wild, he grows up, ends up hearing the same prophecy and goes out and kills his dad and marries his mom. And this all started because of one silly prophecy.

        Or was it so silly and little? The mere fact that the prophecy existed and was told to the king and queen caused it to become a reality. There would be no reason for the monarch to rid themselves of their child if they had no knowledge that he would kill them. Even so, due to the circumstances in the play, one could even argue that if the prophecy was never told to the king and queen, it never would have become true.
 
       Yet it is told and the king and queen rid themselves of their heir. Even then, the prophecy wouldn't have necessarily become a reality. But then, just to reinforce it, the prophecy was told again, this time to Oedipus. And Oedipus, taking matters into his own hands, decides to try and stop the prophecy from ever becoming a reality. Ironically, the mere act of attempting to fling the chains of fate from his feet is what caused the future to happen.

      So it all boils down to a lone man, Oedipus, on his quest to feel powerful against fate, to cast the future to the side and say "You don't control me!".  But he doesn't posess that power, here is a madman babbling things about the future, but he cannot  change it. The future becomes exactly what it intended to be, and no puny human could ever interfere with something as grand as the future.

So, strike one Oedipus, Fate wins this round.

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