Where does the ownership of a decision begin? A thinks that he chose to go out drinking with Tom, after all, he did make the decision in that moment. My question is focused on a larger scale. Is it still his decision if I put him in a specific situation where he would almost always choose to go out? There isn’t a person alive who knows him better than me.

Sometimes I wonder if that is the balance between fate and free will. That we all have free will in the moment only in the sense that we could go against the larger plan of the universe. But we never will. Or at least, it’s very unlikely. And the universe, or God, or fate knows this.

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This might sound like a tangent, but it took this type of grand thinking for me to even begin to plot against A. He has always had control. He has never existed without it. To try and pry that power away from him is impossible. I would need fate to intervene. Unless he willingly chose to give up some of his control, I’d have no hope of turning the tables on him.

I know that I’m no god. Instead, I prepared, and waited. The only things a mere mortal can do. I needed to push A off kilter just enough so that when the time came, he would willingly choose to descend deeper into the abyss.

Now, on the drive to the bar, I can only wait again. All of my efforts went into getting A to choose to go to the bar. Whether or not the plan would continue would rely on a power higher than my own. If she was there, the plan would proceed.