Now and then, occasionally when friendship or conversation reaches that level where one feels it would actually be interesting to know about someone's beliefs, yet not good enough but to pose the questions in anything but the vaguest terms, comes the question, "Do you believe in fate?"

Actually, do you think it's possible to tell if someone believes in that from what they do? Well.

My well-rehearsed answer will now be: I guess, destiny means you can't really screw things up even if you tried. Not that you should go on being lazy, slothful or generally hateful but I guess it means that you may be all those in some stage of your life yet you're around to wake up when it matters?

Something like that. Actually, that was badly expressed. More generally, it means that very few things you do matter in life, but you never know which ones will.

What a bitch ain't it.