I stand by 'Roots' as symbol of the fate of my people.
If I only acted, I feel like I wouldn't have enough creative expression over my own sensibility, and also if I only acted, the notion of surrendering my fate and future to other people is deeply unsettling to me and it would make me uncomfortable.
Cabbies in particular seem to like discussing the fate the Earth.
My accident was the result of incredible fate, with me spinning in a place I shouldn't have, with a car coming at a speed it shouldn't have, and hitting me with the sharpest and strongest thing that it has, which is the nose, in the most vulnerable part of the car, which is between the side part and the front wheel.
I haven't wasted many opportunities that fate gave me.
Fate and history have a similar feeling. They are weird mirrors to each other.
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
Because characters are your creations, you are the one who ultimately gets to decide their fate.
