I did some thinking about life, fate, and God once.  One of the things I wrote was something to the affect....  The Story of our Life is already written; it’s our job to turn the Pages... one at a time.  It's our choice (free will) to stop turning pages or pausing on the Ones we like best.  Skipping pages is not wise because you will miss something or eventually have to go back to figure out what's going on in our life today.