you make your own fate
I don't at all but my housemate has sudden gone all philosophical saying 'everything happens for a reason' all the time... meh.

I don't at all but my housemate has sudden gone all philosophical saying 'everything happens for a reason' all the time... meh.
Nope, You make your own fate.
"The future is only what we make of it"

Yes, we are unfortunately locked on a path that has already unfolded an infinite amount of times. We have an illusion of choice, but the choices we make are in fact predetermined by the events and circumstances which preceded the choice-making.
The present is nothing more than our limited perception of time, and as a result we mistakingly believe that the 'future' is yet to be decided, when in fact, we're merely bound to one point on the continuum moving forward a preset path that has already happened, and will happen an infinite amount of times as was decided at the formation of the Universe, and time.
The future is not set, there is no fate but what we make for ourselves. Dyson... Miles Bennett Dyson... SHE'S GUNNA BLOW HIM AWAY!
"Hahaha, too slow!"Damnit that's what I was going to post!

There is no fate. People make their own way in this world and luck and coincidence will affect it, but there is no predetermination.