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I also like to think that way! But what about randomness? Encounters that turn our lives upside down, accidents, illnesses that deprive us of reason — aren't these chapters we are not allowed to write? Perhaps we co-author and are only responsible for the inner world of our character? But even this inner world is shaped by the influence of randomness. What do you think?

Of course there are these external influences (how grateful I am that you speak of coincidences and not fate ;-)) - and we write our book precisely by the way we deal with them! What it does to us when we find ourselves in situations that we didn't choose ourselves, but that we can utilise or transform.