Destine to be Neurotic

Destine to be Neurotic

Destiny is a predetermined fate many believe all humans posses. Some believe their destiny is determined by a god while other believe they are individually born with an inevitable course of events to live throughout their life. People who believe in their destiny could want to fulfill their destiny, or go against it. Either way,   knowing their fate can lead people to make many decisions and become neurotic. This is because, when people attempt to go against what they believe to be inevitable, they become anxious, fearful, angry, and possibly depressed. Someone who believes in destiny, and is given the destiny of developing cancer, for example, would take every preventative measure to go against their fate and not get cancer. By doing so, they would be constantly paranoid and neurotic. In Sophocles’s play, Oedipus the King, Oedipus was aware of his inevitable fate and because he attempted to escape this, his destiny lead to him to neuroticism.
Before Oedipus became king of Thebes, he had already known his fate and wanted nothing more than to escape it. Apollo told him what was to be of his life, and he ran away from the god in terror and disbelief. When he found out he was to kill his father and marry his mother, he ran away from home without telling his parents, who he believed to be his real mother and father. Along the way of his escape, he came across a three way road, where he met Laius and his men. When they pushed Oedipus aside, he reacted in anger and killed the king and everyone else except for a shepherd who escaped. He did so without realizing his own temper. He tells Jocasta "I paid him back in full with interest: in no time at all he was hit by the stick I held in my hand and rolled backwards from the center of the wagon. I killed the whole lot of them." His attempt to escape his destiny led him to become angry and violent. And, part of his destiny was unintentionally fulfilled that day. He killed Laius, who was his true father. His thoughts were...