Pre-destiny
There are many schools of thought regarding this issue. To me it always boils down to "What am I supposed to do about it? What action do I take?" After looking at everything I found my truth in this. You have all the freedom to make any choice in this reality. You will get it. If it was not meant to be it would not come up in your mind or it would not appeal to you.
The one school says that before incarnation you knew or thought up this whole scenario. Imagine you saw a movie and afterwards you thought. "I would love to have been the hero in this story." Then you wake up in a maternity ward and your desire to experience the hero began. Of course you chose to forget. If you knew at birth the game would have been over before it began.
You really wish to experience the doubt and the considerations that the hero went through at every point and it would not be possible if you knew at birth what the outcome would be. So you go through your life and because you are that person you will make all your choices with all the freedom of who you are, and yet the movie is already complete, thus the choices have already been made. (This is the essence of creation.)
Another school says that you made predetermined points in your life and the rest are random thoughts that you can make along the way. Let’s say you take a road map to go from cape to Cairo. There are border gates that you are destined to go through. All the rest is up to you. You can be rich or poor. You can camp out along the road or book in at a hotel. You can follow the N1 north or take the alternative routes. But there are a few destined gates that you will go through.
This is awesome stuff. In your human body you cannot imagine intelligence so superior. This intelligence knows you so well that it knew how you would develop and when. It worked out that you would fit right in to all the other things happening so you would flawlessly flow through doing exactly what you have to do and when, but you will also MAKE those choices. Like a grand chess player that will work out what your next moves would be, you knew what you would choose.
The matrix movie. The oracle would say. "Choose now Neo. But you already made that choice."
The essence of creation. Visualization. When you make a decision you have already made that choice. Then you get up and you act out a play that has already been written to completion. Go to town to have a meal in a restaurant. Once you decided to do that it is already done. You just have to live out that creation in linear time, but it was complete the moment you made the decision.
In the larger scheme of things you made bigger decisions. You decided to become and die a healer for instance.
Now you are just doing the in-between and moment to moment you make the right decisions that will bring you there. We live in a perfect universe. Every experience you go through, good or bad, is a process of priming you to become and come to exactly the points in your live that you chose in exactly the way that you chose to show up in that moment.
The grateful beggar spent thirty odd years of his life to show up exactly the way he does in order to give you exactly that experience of receiving his gratitude in the few seconds that you see him when you give him your change. He had many other contracts and in his life he had perfect contacts with many other people.
If you misunderstand this writing of mine and do the "Wrong" thing then it was predestined that you do exactly that in order to live out exactly the experiences you chose. It is also an experience I chose. Ultimate perfection.
When you realize that the space we are in when we choose our life drama is timeless or the space of all time, then you will also realize what you are going through now is being chosen now and observed now from a space where you were when you thought this life up into existence.
Thinking this through can fry your mind
sometimes while at other times you might find it makes clear and perfect sense to you.