Rain Water in the Drain

After dinner today, it started to rain. No, it should be that it started to pour like no other! I stood at the end of the cafeteria looking out, wondering how was I to run back to the dorm. Then, I looked down and saw the drain. It was just a small and shallow drain and because the whole place (cafeteria and the buildings beside it) were connected yet at different levels, the drain had steps, like a staircase in the drain. The rain kept pouring down and the drain stated to fill up. Because of the gravitational pull, the water flowed downwards in one direction. There was a metal thingy across the drain for people to step on and it stopped the water on one end, and at the other, it was like a waterfall because it was slightly raised (urm, metal is quite thick, in case you didn't know). But even so, the water still continued to flow in one direction. It caused me then to think. What if the water wanted to flow the opposite way? Was it possible? Or is it dependent on the gravitational pull?

It caused me to think. Is life like that also? Are we really in charge of the decisions in our lives or is the path already set and a higher being just clicked the "Play" button and we react according to plan. Can we decide to do something else? If we really decide to react differently, how would I know that it is not part of the path set by the higher being? Is life and its choices really choices that we have the prerogative to decide or does that prerogative belong to a higher being who has charted how our life would be and how we would react and we just follow through? Is life really just like the flow of water that just follows the path that is set before it, not being able to move the other direction because of a greater force (gravity)?

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