The meaning of fate.

For my mother Thetis the goddess of silver feet tells me
I carry two sorts of destiny toward the day of my death. Either,
if I stay here and fight beside the city of the Trojans,
my return home is gone, but my glory shall be everlasting;
but if I return home to the beloved land of my fathers,
the excellence of my glory is gone, but there will be a long life
left for me, and my end in death will not come to me quickly.^[6]

We have but one fate. And we have our anti-fate. We can escape our fate only through our anti-fate but this my friend is not satisfaction. it is the life of regret which strings together other choices of fate and destiny.. To be or Not to be. Ultimately our fate is not to be. But our choice is what to be on our way to not being. It is courage that overwhelms our fear of not being.