Fact or fate

Life often seems to come in random spurts of luck, or loss, or even strict boredom, but does it have to?

I'm pretty sure it doesn't.

Some things are unavoidable, that's true.

But how I react, or respond, or choose to deal with them should be up to me.

The idea that I have nothing to do with the way my life goes is just plain false.

I can just go with the flow, fight back, change course and do something different, or even just sit and laugh, or cry, about it.

I almost always do something. It's hard not to. After all I am a living, breathing person with a huge repertoire of learned and practiced responses.

The question is . . .

Which one will I use?