Agency or No Agency?

Folk #1: Hamlet asked "To Be Or Not To Be?" Well, yes, we are here, now, so the thing is absolutely To Be. Some of us find ourselves asking "Agency or No Agency?" Born here.  Did we choose the time & place of our own births? That's what the Psychics told me. Not sure about that. We find ourselves here with these eyes, ears, hands, legs, heads stuck in a certain time & place. What to do? We choose to do what we can. Sometimes it feels like we are all in a rushing river of time, we are floating, propelled by forces bigger than us. Other times, we feel like every moment, every decision, every thought, every word is unique to us. Everything counts, and every twist & turn is absolutely definitive. Every moment is wild & free & a strait-jacket. Time is change, time is possibility, time is a sort of prison. Maybe it really doesn't matter. "We care too much to care," and we just carry on. What's my answer this morning? I'm going with Agency. Aware, Alive, Awake. Damn the torpedoes. Oh, yeah, and "Fuck it!"