Do I even believe in fate?

So after having met everybody on the MA course and having had the introduction I had a really good feeling about it. And after having had my first classes this week I am even more confident that I chose the right path when I decided to try out for this course. As I said before, I am heading in the right direction.

There's another thing I have not mentioned though and that is the story of how I got to have the room that I am staying in.
This room that is not only really big (big enough to practise Yoga in) and has a view on our garden which is locatged on the southside of our house (so I have sun in my room almost all day long). It is also located in a house which happens to be in a very quiet area and only a twenty minute walk from the university. On top of that I have four great house mates who are all very friendly and lots of fun.

Taken into account that I had never even seen any pictures of the room and I did speak to one house mate on the phone but I did not meet the other before I arrived, one can say that I got incredibly lucky. However there is another thing that needs to be taken into account; the decision on why I was to become the new house mate.

Several people had viewed the room already, but none were quite what the house mates were looking for. It turned out not to be so easy to find a person that would fit in. And so one of my house mates, I, prayed that a nice candidate for the room would come along. Preferably one who studied film, as I is quite interested in film.
At the time I responded to the online add I was actually already too late because they were just making the desicion that evening. But of course because I was going to do study screenwriting it had to be me.

Now I tell myself that this is an incredible story. And I ask myself; did both parties in this story get incredibly lucky, or was it fate?
Was it meant to be that I came exactly here and meet exactly these people? Do I even believe in fate?

If I were to answer this question I would say 'No'. I believe in chance. Because I believe that a person always has a choice to decide one way or the other. And I believe this choice depends on a lot of circumstances. Besides, what is the whole point of choice if fate already knows which decision you're going to make? If fate already knows than there is no actual decision.

I believe in decision. An individual makes decisions and he or she is defined by these decisions and has to take responsibility for making them. Whether it's the right one or the wrong one it was yours.
And the decision to go for this room, it was 100% mine. I am taking full responsibilty even though I had never seen it before and i had never met the people I was going to be living with.
To me it was luck, to someone else it might be fate. I guess that is just a different way of viewing life.