Do I think things are meant to be? IMO, no. I don't beleive that we are all walking down a path of predetermined events. This would imply that a higher being is at play here.
Do "I" think that things happpen for a reason? IMO, yes. I think that everything happens for a reason, but not exactly how you might be getting at.
There are consequences for all of our actions and in my opinion there is no higher being that has had a say in this matter. We all make our own decisions, and our decisions are based on the situation that has presented itself, which in turn, was created by others making choices and decisions for themselfs. And a event or occurence that has happened to me, you or someone that you know, has happened because someone else before you made a choice of there own.
If a drunk driver is behind the wheel and careens through the median and into oncomming traffic and kills you, was it a god that decided this ages ago that, at that moment in time, it was your time to go? IMO, no. It was due to a chain of events and decisions made by that person to get drunk and drive his/her vehicle. It was there decision based on the situation that was presented to them at the time, no preset path was followed. You are able to change the path that is taken by making rational decisions, but each and every decision, rational or not, will lead to a different outcome that will effect someone else down the road. Maybe not today or maybe not tomorrow, or maybe not at all, but there is an effect or a possibility of an effect.
In essence, we all make decisions based on our current situations. And our current situations were all made by our own choices and in part by others making choices before us.
