What was destiny? What was the power that shaped the patterns and attempted to enforce them? God? Should she be raging at God - or begging Him to let her son live and to spare her from the life of a cripple? Or was the power behind destiny merely a natural mechanism, a force no different in origin from gravity or magnetism?

Fate cannot be sidestepped or outrun.

Not all or even most suffering is at the hands of fate; it befalls us at our invitation.