One Fate, Several Ways to Meet It: Essay about the book "Ficciones", By Jorge Borges

Imagine, you turn left and left and left, and then go straight because you certainly don't want to go right. If you do, you'll surely get lost. You heard them say that if you continue to your left, you will find the middle. The middle just has to be right around the corner. It isn't. Is it possible that the first lefts you took were wrong? Hours later you emerge from the labyrinth wall. Are …

…to reach in any person's life. It is the early decisions made in life that make them so similar. The realizations of every attempt at a primary goal are all attached to the same decision tree. As the leaves of a single tree are quite similar, so are the outcomes of a singular goal. Borges ties fate to goals, and explains why people make the decisions they do with his labyrinth of tales entitled, Ficciones.