Fate

While the fate permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

We are all destined to become someone somewhere but end up as someone else somewhere else. Life is nothing but an interplay of destiny and fate in a real environment of opportunities and impediments. Thanks to the accumulated karma from our foregone lives and the spill over of extra-ordinary karma from those of our parents, all of us are born with pre-determined destinies in each life. But only a miniscule number among us live up to these ‘blueprints of life’ in toto, while most others deviate from it due to reasons known and unknown.
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her. But once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game
A scene in "The Matrix" goes like this...."
Morpheus:Do you believe in fate, Neo?
Neo: No.
Morpheus: Why not?
Neo: Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life."
There is no need 2 see the movie 2 understand this conversation

Fate or Destiny, there are just two factors that govern it.
They are

• Time
• Space

If one masters the knowledge of time and space we would know our fate or destiny.Its a pure science, not physics but metaphysics....Changing themm to our positives is another art...

Though a person's fortune may be largely determined from birth, one can always change it by altering his circumstances. Sincere effort and hard work can also change a person's fortune, both in terms of his material as well as his spiritual standing. The Psalmist alluded to this when he sang, "A Song of Ascents. Happy [are you,] every one who fears God and walks in His ways. You shall eat the fruit of your effort. Happy are you, and goodness [is reserved] for you" (Psalms 128:1-2). "Happy are you" -- in this world, and "goodness is reserved for you" -- in the World to Come

To put it briefly, it is not only enough to be born with a good destiny; to become a good man it is also necessary