Interesting story. It is funny how our lives can turn on a single event sometimes. Astrology says that different people have different levels of randomness vs. fate in their lives, depending on how their planets are arranged in their chart. Mine is balanced about 50-50. Seems about right.
50/50 - fate? ;D
There are so many unknowable aspects about us that even to ourselves, our actions are unpredictable at times. I wish I was born with more good luck, but I seem to have more of the, live through adversity drive than many.