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The story you swear you didn't write, told entirely in your own handwriting.
means The seemingly fixed course of events that will inevitably happen to a person, as if predetermined by some power beyond their control.
from From Latin destinare, 'to make firm, establish, fix in place' — built from de- (a strengthening prefix) and a root related to stare, 'to stand.' Destiny is literally what stands fixed and settled, what's been nailed down in advance. It reached English through Old French destinee, the past participle of destiner, 'to determine, ordain' — so destiny is that which has been firmly fixed for you, while you stand there pretending you'd planned it all along.
- Etymology
- From Latin destinare, to make firm or fix
- Calvinist twist
- Predestination claimed your fate before you were born
- Manifest version
- Justified a continent's worth of expansion in 1845
- Greek limit
- Even Zeus couldn't override the Fates' thread
- Game franchise
- Bungie's shooter named itself after the inescapable
destiny's child — r&b group formed in 1997 featuring beyoncé, kelly rowland, and michelle williams
destiny 2 — video game released by bungie in 2017, with over 1 million concurrent players