Do success and happiness depend on the choices people make rather than on factors beyond their control?

  Success is a parents priority towards their children till birth. People say success is the key to life, but not always does it bring happiness. Success and happiness is a mix of both choices and fate that you cannot control. This may be very hard to explain to people, but once one gets the gist of how it works it may be much easier to comprehend. Fate and choices are partially the same thing because at times you can decide your fate, but it is already controlled. 

  Good choices or bad choices lead up to a specific route. It is pretty self explanatory, bad leads to bad and good leads to good. Lets take for example, a teenage boy who is influenced by local friends that lead to wrong decisions causing him to not pay attention in class for a long period of time. The boy and his clique decide to do deliquent choices such as robbing a store. They all end up in jail and no longer have a great opportunity to get into college because of poor grades and what not. This did not lead to success, he chose his fate by making a bad decision. 

  Not only do you choose your fate, but God also chooses your fate. As soon as you are born you already have a fate chosen for you. God does have mercy and he is very understanding of every human being considering that we are his creation. Everyone has a soul, mind, etc. We choose are actions because we are self conscious of what we do. God already has made a conclusion of the future depending on what we do to attain happiness and success. Not only does decision lead to our chance of success or happiness, making prayers always lead to a higher chance. Asking for power, by the greater power himself will always boost chances. 

  Although success is tied in with happiness, majority of rich and wealthy human beings never seem to find happiness. Some say it is because of too many riches, expenses, items, etc. Although that can be true a few of them forget the fact from where it all came. If you wonder where, it came from your own hard work and mostly god because he controls the factors that we have no upper hand too. As Tablo stated, "too much of heaven is a sin, after the show its only hell that it brings". What is the point of living in heaven and not thanking the upper power for leading us to his final conclusion?

  In general, success and happiness is all tied into the choices we have made. These choices are also tied into the factors beyond our control. The higher power has already decided our fate, but is merciful enough to make "us" change it. Remember that we are self conscious of what we do and can only blame ourselves for what we do that is wrong or right. We are our own decision makers and we should always be prepared for what is coming in the near future.