It would appear that I find myself among those who, until now, I believed merely to be fictional. I don't find this in any way disheartening or unexpected. After all, what is destiny if not a plot already written which we are meant to follow.
I think, in a situation as this, the only question may be whether or not we want to happen upon our own endings.
Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today.