Is there a difference between fate and destiny if so what is it?

Answer 1

To me fate is something that happens to you
and destiny is where you are at any given time.

Answer 2

I think the words are interchangeable. I believe in fate. I believe that we each have a destiny (something that we are destined, fated or meant to do) & it is up to us to discover what that is & then do it to the best of our ability & live up to our full potential. I believe my fate/destiny is to be an artist. I'm a painter as well as a musician. I was born with an urge to create & I never feel more alive than when I express myself creatively. We all have a different calling but it's up to us to answer!

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Answer 3

Fate means it's going to happen to you. You don't have a choice, such as, we were fated to meet.

Destiny means something which you were made for, but you are free to accept or reject it. You can participate in achieving the destiny for which you seem to be prepared or you can choose to do something else. Destiny is more closely related to that sense of being called to do something, be something. It's more about the person reflecting on who they are and what their place in the world is. Rather than fae which is seen as something imposed from the outside on the person.

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

Destiny vs. fate
Destiny is regarded by some as fate, a fixed timeline of events that is inevitable and unchangeable, and the future knowable through means of divination. This has led to an assumption of divination as fortune-telling, though the actual practice accounts for the self-determination of individual people and an unknowable future. In divination, destiny takes on a meaning different from its common usage.

Although the words are used interchangeably, fate and destiny are distinct things. Modern usage defines fate as a power or agency that predetermines and orders the course of events. The definition of fate has it that events are ordered or "meant to be". Fate is used in regard to the finality of events as they have worked themselves out, and that same finality is projected into the future to become the inevitability of events as they will work themselves out. Fate also has a morbid association with finality in the form of "fatality". Destiny, or fate, used in the past tense is "one's lot" and includes the sum of events leading up to a currently achieved outcome (e.g. "it was her destiny to be leader", "it was his fate to be executed"). Fate is an outcome determined by an outside agency acting upon a person or entity; but with destiny the entity is participating in achieving an outcome that is directly related to itself. Participation happens wilfully.

The word "Kismet" (alt., rarely, "Kismat") derives from the Arabic word "qismah", and entered the English language via the Turkish word "qismet" meaning either "the will\save Allah" or "portion, lot or fate". In English, the word is synonymous with "Fate" or "Destiny".

Answer 5

There's no difference between fate and destiny.

Answer 6

Yes it is. As far as I know, one man can change his destiny but not his fate! Fate is the principle to which even Gods have to answer! That can be best seen in greek philosophy and theatre. For that you can read Sofocles, Euripides and others, too many to mention!

Answer 7

fate...The supposed force, principle, or power that predetermines events.
destiny...The inevitable or necessary fate to which a particular person or thing is destined; one's lot.
so, no...there isn't a difference.

Answer 8

No difference, neither exist!

Answer 9

not taking responsibility for your freedom