I'm talking about within the context of your own actions.
Take something as trivial as buying Steem for example. Should I buy it? If I bought it was it fated as such? If I chose not to, was I fated for that or was it a choice I made?
On a macro scale, sure I can see an ebb and flow or a method to the madness. I can't bring myself to see it as a unchangeable route however.
What if you are trying to exhaust any means necessary to buy STEEM and you even have the money. What if there is no way for you to buy it? Say your bank randomly locks your account or you get hacked randomly. There are things that are outside of our control that stop us from doing some things we are sure we want more than anything. At some point it's clear that if the universe wants to jump in and say no, it's going to do so whether we like it or not. Maybe you weren't supposed to because you had something else to do with that money or maybe it's not even about you and that hacker was that stole the money was using it to feed some starving kid somewhere. If I focus on the why or how things I assume I have control over don't work out it's just clear to me that in the grand scheme of things we don't really control much of anything outside how we choose to accept or deny what is happening. So I try to just observe and not stress shit. It's all perspective though. :)
Indeed, it is all perspective. This one is interesting to me and I mean no offense, only discussion.
If it's all predestined, and we have little or no control over the grand scheme(s), what's the purpose of waking in the morning? Why keep on? Do we grind these lives out only to supply fruit to the greater scheme of the universe? I apologize for the fatalist angle, these are simply my own inner thoughts on it.
Conversely, the chaos could be more than we can comprehend. If everything has free will but has an ultimate end, then it's possible for the same scenario as above.
I offer another conclusion. It may sound comical or a fantasy and to that, it's also ripped from an X-men movie! =D
Perhaps humans and their choices are like small pebbles in a river. We can slightly alter the water and it's direction, but ultimately, it's going to continue to flow to its destination.
I would say your X-Men analogy is pretty much spot on with how I feel. We can move around in the river, we can swim against it, we can swim with it and accelerate the process, or we can just flow and enjoy the ride. :)