Was everything we’ll ever do written in the stars long before we were born, or are we the authors of our own story?

How you answer that rather existential question could say a lot about your worldview. It can be comforting, in a way, to imagine that everything happens for a reason and that there’s no use sweating the small stuff when we’re all walking a preordained path. And yet it might be even more freeing to believe the opposite: that we create our own destiny and there’s no such thing as fate.