We probably don't have free will, but don't worry! Seeing this illusion as it is makes the case of love stronger, feeling hate nonsensical, &amp; forgiving yourself &amp; others easier. Why love? Because we care &amp; it feels good. Why not hate? Well, maybe people are not the ultimate author of their actions. Why forgive? We all make mistakes &amp; we all need to move on &amp; learn.

Why no free will? Well, we don't choose our parents, birth of place, genetics, but we also don't choose our past &amp; our thoughts; they arise in our life &amp; our brains like particles popping into existence. We don't think a thought before we think it basically. We are usually lost in thought going with the flow like water in the river.

It all comes to this simple thought experiment: I ask you any question, like 'what's your favourite food?' and you think of an answer and I'll simply ask 'could you have thought otherwise?' If you say yes, well, I think you are honestly wrong, because if I didn't ask that question you wouldn't have thought that.

There's really three possibilities: everything is determined, chance, or some divine plan. In all three, everything is connected, through cause &amp; effect (or effect &amp; cause), &amp; thus we are all part of this chain of events that keeps on flowing. In all three, free will doesn't make logical sense, but hey stranger I love you!

I also think we - all of humanity - have delusions &amp; we are probably hallucinating all the time. Why? Well, no one see the whole of reality in its entire truth &amp; our brains create perceptions through are unreliable senses. And we all know our brains aren't reliable, eh? :D

So here's my story: as I write this I'm really marvelling at my word flow right now, &amp; isn't that weird how some days I'm a wordsmith &amp; some days I'm wordless?

But I want to confess that I have my own beliefs that may or may be true that are coping mechanism for my reality, like the multiverse &amp; quantum immortality. So if you are still reading this &amp; think, fuck no I don't want to lose my free will, then you don't have to. My motto is if it helps it helps, as long it don't harm anybody else. Thanks for reading, let's all try to be kind &amp; deal with continuous, figuratively and literally, shit, huh?