From physicist Sabine Hossenfelder:

There is nothing in physics that distinguishes the past, present and future from each another. It’s simply that we can only access the present. According to the currently established laws of nature, the future, the present, and the past all exist in the same way. 

Existential Physics; a scientists guide to life’s biggest questions by Sabine Hossenfelder

Blame Albert Einstein for this. He showed that time is relative and speeds up or slows down according to where you are, or how big a mass is near you. If Hossenfelder is right, then it means we live in a Predetermined Universe – everything that can happen has already happened, we just don’t know it yet.

Hossenfelder then goes on to say that information cannot be destroyed, except in a black hole, so the past, present and future are all out there, we just can’t access it.

This means that, since everything has already happened that will happen, fate or destiny has been predetermined – it isn’t given by a higher power, such as by the Roman Goddess Fortuna, blindly turning her wheel; or according to a divine plan devised by a Stoic, Christian, or Islamic god. But then again – who predetermined it?

The thing is, you can’t know what the future holds, so you’re always moving through time blindly, in the dark, not knowing what’s in store for you. While there aren’t any higher forces turning the wheel of fortune on our lives, (what will happen has already happened), we are left to our own interpretations, blindly guessing and gambling what’s around the corner.

The key to making better decisions about the future, it seems to me, is in understanding the past. Knowing what worked well and what didn’t, is ultimately the best bet we have on Fortuna’s Wheel of Fortune. Or, maybe you believe in fortune tellers. In which case, ignore everything I have just said.