what is fate?
As defined by dictionary.com, it is that which is inevitably predetermined.

while waiting for our turn to take the roller-coaster, there was a wee bit of paranoia in me - that it would somehow derail while we were on it, and that would be the end of us. All because a whiney and very persistent me insisted on taking the ride. Would i survive the rollercoaster, but still die while crossing the road..simply because i was fated to die?

chance.
the absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled: often personified or treated as a positive agency.


what is chance? how can an occurance be due to chance? if sth happened unintentionally, in other words due to chance, then what was it that caused the chance to Be so, rather than what was originally predicted?

serendipity. (btw is it pronounced -seren- as in serenade or surrender)
the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for.

again, what causes such a phenomenon? chance? fate?

who/what determines such fates/chances/serendipitous occurances..
would one, then, who doesn't believe in an omnipresent being make any sense by saying 'leave it in the hands of Fate'..