A Matter of Fate and Destiny

Fate is defined as a predetermined course in life and will eventually happen whether we like it or not, but destiny is something that we have to work for and achieve to become.
According to William Jennings Bryan, destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice. Not something to wish for, but to attain.
I am a believer in both fate and destiny. From experience, there were things in my life whom I simply had to accept with a gracious heart as they came along. 

It's been almost two weeks of anguish, in waiting for the list of successful applicants in the University of Sto. Tomas -Faculty of Medicine and Surgery to come out, because it is the only school in the Philippines, where my son intends to pursue his medical education and the only school he applied for, despite some advices to apply with other schools as back up. There were 1575 applicants who took the entrance exam last January 15, 2011,  with more than six hundred (600) honor graduates and dean's listers. What are the chances of a male applicant with an NMAT Score of 96 and graduating with a GWA of 1.78 from the UST-College of Nursing to be admitted? To date, no one can tell, only fate knows... if he will be among the 450  successful applicants. 
Between now and the time that results will be posted online or in their bulletin boards by the second week of March 2011, or from an official email advise, we have to hold-on to our FAITH and PRAY hard to the Almighty to answer our prayers in accordance to HIS will. 
Meantime, I have to prepare my son to accept with humility and kindness, whatever the results be, looking at the glass half full and hanging on steadfast in high hope and spirit, so that he will be a step closer to his dream to be a Doctor of Medicine or proceed to his Plan B, to take a Masters degree in Audiology, or Plan C that is to work as a Nurse in New Zealand. 
On whether, he will be a good doctor, Audiologist, or Nurse  someday, we're taking everything for now, as a matter of fate and destiny.