what would you do...?

Fate has a way of changing people’s life, whether it was good or bad. You can’t change fate because you don’t know what the future would bring your way.
That’s what she knew. She knew she couldn’t cheat fate to go where she always wanted. So she just went with what happened and moved on. But she always hoped that once she could just get what she always wanted…and that is to be known in the world. For people to know that she’s alive, that she is someone in the world. Not just a name but a whole person. Even though she has enough friends and the best life any one would dream of, it wasn’t enough. She felt isolated and trapped. She felt that she didn’t have enough space to do her thing. Which is to write just one novel and she would never ask for anything else.
If she just got a chance to publish her novel, she would take it in a heart beat, and do it with much enthusiasm and energy. And she didn’t care about where or when or how she had to write it. She just wants to write.
Even though she knew there was a possibility that this might not happen, she kept on writing before going to bed, and prayed that her only dream would come true.
On the day of her high school graduation, a man came to her and asked her a simple question:
“Would you rather follow your dream that might not come true? Or live life the fullest?”
Now of course she didn’t know what to say, because she knew that sometimes your dreams don’t come true, and sometimes you have to make your dream come true with work and time but she knew her answer. So she said:
“I’d choose living my life to the fullest. Because to me, living my life the fullest is to take a chance at a dream that might not come true. But I still believe that even though my future doesn’t include my dream coming true. I’ll still hope and keep on dreaming on that it will come true.”
She said every word with such emotion, and so much hopes that it made the man in front of her smile.
Then the man thanked her and walked out of her life. And she never saw that man again.
After that she couldn’t stop thinking about her answer to that question, because she would never have thought to say that.
She would go to where ever fate brought her. She wouldn’t go against fate to make her dream come true, but after she thought about it she remembered that you decide what to do with your life not fate. There might not even be fate to take you where you have to go.
So after graduation she went to college and finished her novel that she had started years ago and went to a publisher and gave him her novel and waited for an answer to what would happen to her future.
Her dream came true eventually but not at first. But it had come true and she was thrilled to finally have her only dream come true.
Her novel was about her life and what she had to go through for her dream to become a reality.
She dedicated the book to the man from graduation, because he changed her view on life.
She thought she could never get her way with life, and with one simple question she changed.
And her final quote was:
“Would you rather follow your dream that might not come true? Or live life the fullest?”
What would you do?