What is destiny?

Question

What is destiny?

Answer 1

Destiny is doing all and being all you can be until it is revealed to you.

Answer 2

A sense of destiny in its oldest human sense is in the soldier's fatalistic image of the "bullet that has your name on it" or the moment when your number "comes up," or a romance that was "meant to be." The human sense that there must be a hidden purpose in the random lottery governs the selection of Theseus to be among the youths to be sacrificed to the Minotaur. Many Greek legends and tales teach the futility of trying to outmaneuver an inexorable fate that has been correctly predicted.

Answer 3

It is the theory that the future of some or all people is determined  to at least a large degree by some higher power or divine will.

That, regardless of the paths someone takes through life, certain events and certain outcomes are not avoidable.

Answer 4

Destiny is like a ubiquitous cloud over our lives. It heavily influences the events in our lives, the decisions we make, who we spend our lives with. All major events in our life such as birth, marriage, major illnesses, accidents and death are pre-destined. As destiny is a spiritual root cause of difficulties in our life, its effects can only be nullified by spiritual practice.

Answer 5

Destiny or Fate?

Destiny is in many ways the final calling to resolve past life issues and put these matters to rest. Destiny is about the future.

Your destiny is affected by the time, place and date of birth but you still have free will. Destiny and fate may not always be so easy to explain or understand. The outcome and difference between your destiny and fate will be determined by you and only you.

Your own fate may be said to be determined by the time, date and place of your birth. We may say that in some ways it outlines the things to come.

When you were born into this incarnation you were given certain traits and it is up to you to decide what to do with these traits. It is believed you can change the outcome of your fate. But remember this will be done within the context of what you were born with.

Remember you have free choice and you should never allow fate to control your life if it makes you feel unhappy. In the end the final choice is yours.

Answer 6

Aren't you in the wrong section? I think answerer 1 has your answer down to pat.