Are you in control of your own destiny?

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Do you think your destiny or ultimate life path is set in stone, so to speak or preordained? Do you feel as if there is only one right path for you to take and if you do so you will be rewarded with success and happiness? In a way, I do. And, in a way, I don't. I searched for ten years prior to becoming a mother for an alternate purpose and none revealed itself. So, perhaps being a mom is my destiny in life. I don't think of it as a cop-out or fall back job. Being a mom is not a consolation prize. It's the job that I wanted first, before anything else. And, when it did not immediately happen, I had to look elsewhere for fulfillment. Perhaps fate or whoever controls these things allowed me ten years leeway to explore my other options so that I would never think I had been cheated out of anything. For ten years, I felt as if my life were on hold waiting for something and after my daughter arrived, I knew what I had been waiting for. And, now it feels as if the windows of the world have opened up their opportunity to me. I know it doesn't work this way for everyone. But, it did seem to work out that way for me. Thinking about it now, the pieces of my life didn't start coming into place until I became a mother. All those things I wanted to do before, but lacked courage to do, are now suddenly possible. So, did becoming a mother empower me to take the leap? Or, was it something that was simply going to happen along the road of my life, my preordained destiny? Perhaps my destiny is linked to the courage and fortitude that I possess to reach out and take what is rightfully reserved for me. That's just speculation though. What do you think? Do you think your destiny is already written in stone and unchangeable so that you have to follow a preordained plan for your life? Do you think destiny is a path we take throughout life or a destination that we reach at the end of our lives? Do you feel that you have control over your destiny? Are you in the driver's seat of your own life?