Can people make decisions?

People can't make their own decisions, only from their own experiences. Looking back on my life, many things are involuntary, but whether some things are determined by fate, character or free will is worth exploring. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, a senior official of the Kuomintang government promised Qian Zhongshu to work for UNESCO. Zhong Shu refused. I think working in the United Nations is ideal. Why should I flatly refuse it? Zhong Shu explained to me, "That's a carrot." He was not tempted by carrots or driven by sticks. I think it is his destiny to be appreciated by senior officials, but his "not eating carrots" is his character and his free will. At that time, the position was very popular, and he turned it down without thinking because of his intelligence and personality. Shortly after War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, the war of liberation broke out again. Many people just want to flee abroad in fear. Our thoughts have not progressed. We have read many reactionary novels, all describing the life behind the "Iron Curtain" of the Soviet Union, especially the situation of intellectuals, so we are afraid of the * * * production party. Those who advised us to leave the motherland provided us with various conveniences and arranged good jobs. There is more than one way to go abroad. Advise us to liberate, including Mr. Zheng Zhenduo, Wu Han and Yuan Zhen. They say that the * * * production party attaches importance to intellectuals. We believe. But we know that we are not useful intellectuals. We are not scientists, nor are we literati who can take Marxism-Leninism as the criterion. We free-thinking literati are useless. On second thought, we are still reluctant to leave our parents' motherland. We expect people to be quiet, sit on the bench, live on meager income and be kind and good citizens. This is our own choice, not necessary. Another example is that I am a 28-year-old middle school principal, which can be said to be fate. I know I'm not cut out to be a principal. I only promised Mr. Wang, the principal of my alma mater, to help her run the Shanghai campus well. At first it was fixed for half a year, and then it was extended to one year. Mr. Yu Ji just won't let me resign. This is the fighting spirit of Mr. Yu Ji and me. Doing it is smooth sailing, resigning is sailing against the current, and it is also against the wind, and it is difficult step by step. But I just resigned. At that time, I needed a job and a salary A good middle school principal quit and became a substitute teacher in primary school. It's not necessary, it's my choice. Because I think that if I obey Mr. Yuji's request, I will obey her expectations and inherit her status for life. I want to engage in creation. I dare not say or think about this, except that I never want to be a principal. My firm resignation is my choice, but I will stick to my will, not my fate. But the script I wrote in my spare time was immediately staged and it was very successful. It should be said that it is fate. Although I resigned from the principal, I am still the principal in name, because the principal who took over is only an "agent". On the student diploma, the principal is still my name and my seal. Then the Pearl Harbor incident, the "island" sank, the branch school was dissolved, and I had no chance to be the principal. But my resignation, in any case, can't be said to be fate, but my choice. Perhaps it can be said that I was fortunate to be the principal for two years. If we reflect on our own life experience, we can't help it because of the situation at that time, but at the critical moment, we are still in control. Fortune-tellers compare "fate" to a ship and "wealth" to a river. Ships can only walk in the river. But in the "destiny", is there another "destiny"? If the ship is going to run aground or capsize, there is still a "I" in the ship, which can also be said to be this person's personality. This is the so-called character determines fate. Martyrs die and loyal ministers die for their country. Can it be said that it is not their choice but destiny takes a hand? They listened to the call of spiritual conscience and would rather die than surrender. If you are afraid of death, there is nothing you can do. It is a firm choice to die rather than surrender, and it is by no means involuntary. Man is the master, not the fate. At the beginning of World War II, Japanese invaders invaded China. After the fall of Wuxi City, a footman of Qianjia once lived in the countryside of Wuxi. When he learned that Nanjing had fallen and Wuxi had fallen, he built a big woodpile in his family's grain drying field that could burn people to death. Five or six people, old and young, jumped into the fire and burned to death. When Nanjing fell, the Japanese aggressors slaughtered the people and raped women, which soon spread to Wuxi. They didn't want to be raped and killed, and the whole family set themselves on fire. People may not know what a martyr is, but their behavior is to be a martyr! Can it be said that their behavior is not their own choice, but involuntary? It was a local who fled to Shanghai who came to Qian's house to report the case. Qian Zhongshu went to Kunming. I don't know their names.