Would you want your future to be decided by others? Why or why not?

Would you want your future to be decided by others? Why or why not? 


First of all, I definitely would not want my life to be decided by someone else. I feel as though you should be able to spend your life in whatever way you choose, because you only have one. Your life is your only chance to do whatever you want, and I would like to take advantage of that. 


For instance, if my lifelong dream job would be to be a professional skydiver, there's a one in a billion chance that the person deciding my life would choose that job for me. Most people aren't very good at jobs they don't enjoy, mostly because they don't want to invest extra time practicing or doing well in their job. On the other hand, if someone enjoys their job,they  would want to spend as much extra time on it as possible. Choosing a job is a very important part of life, as most people will probably be spending the majority of their existence doing that job. In my opinion, it would be a total waste of someone's life to be doing a job they don't even like.


Also, if a person wants to become a doctor, a lawyer, or another profession that requires many years of extra schooling, there would be a very narrow chance of that happening with someone else deciding for you. If one didn't want to be a doctor or lawyer, and the person deciding that person's  life chose that for him or her, they  would be miserable during the many years of extra school. 


Family is another part of life that would definitely be affected by someone else choosing one's future. A person should be able to choose their own partner and decide whether they want a family or not. If someone else decides who a person is  going to marry, the person choosing a partner for someone else would have about a one in 6,996,753,153 (according to The U.S. Census Bureau, this is the current population of the world) chance of picking the right person. And, sadly, if they pick the wrong person they stuck with them for the rest of their life. 

Those are just a few of the things that would be at risk if  someone else chooses your life for you, and why you should never let someone else decide your fate for you. We should all be in control over our own destinies.