Your Cards are Dealt

A friend recently said to me "your cards have been dealt." At first I agreed with the sentiment, but the more I think about it the more fatalist it sounds. It's as if we don't have a choice in any future but the one we started following years ago. If the only constant is change, then our cards are shuffled and dealt over and over again, and even then we can choose how we face it. There are countless alternatives that arise with every decision and countless ways to react. Nothing is ever fixed. So I don't buy that phrase. To think that a single hand we are dealt should lead to a singular life is to think only one thing matters. But we are like sand dunes--forever shifting and changing, every day the possibility of being new.