What is fatalism?

Fatalism is the idea that everything that happens was already decided long before it happened, like a script for life.

Imagine you have a favorite toy robot that always follows exactly the same steps when you press its button. No matter how many times you press it, it does the same dance every time. That’s kind of like fatalism: no matter what happens, everything is already set in stone, just like your robot's dance.

Think of life as a big map, and you're walking on it. Fatalism says that the path is already drawn, and you can’t change where you’re going. It’s not that you don’t have choices, it’s just that all your choices were already decided long ago, like steps in a very long game.

If life was a storybook, fatalism would be like reading a book that's already written, every twist and turn is known from the start. You might not know what’s coming next, but it’s all been planned out already.

So, fatalism is like knowing your robot will always dance the same way, no matter how many times you press its button.