Everything is cause and effect, including the future. When someone says the future cannot be changed, it truly can. Every moment you have a choice, a choice to do this or that. For example, I currently am sitting behind a laptop writing this blog. I can also go outside right now and run for some time. It is my choice. Those who don't believe this believe in the doctrine of fatalism or predestination. Basically, there are 2 main beliefs about our future, one being that everything has already been decided (Doctrine of Fatalism) and the second being we can change our future. Both are right and wrong to some extent.

Our future is not set in stone. It is not something that we cannot control at all. Somethings will eventually happen, including our death and birth. Some events are to happen, for example falling in love or acting on an impulse or maturing in your adolescent years. But there are somethings that can be influenced by your decisions. 

For example, you have to option of eating a box of chocolates. There is some predestined circumstances and some option that can be incorporated into this situation. If your parents possess Diabetes, you have the genes to have it. If you eat the box of chocolates, the probability of you suffering the effects of Diabetes is less, but if you eat it, the probability of suffering the effects of Diabetes is more. In this way you haven’t completely changed your future, but you have influenced it.

There are many religions around the world, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, etc. All of them have a common belief, to firmly believe in God. Sacred books such as the Qur’an, the Old and New Testaments, the Geeta, and other such religious articles tell a person how to live their life, all in which it shows that a person should live their life in a good way. None of them advise inhuman or morally wrong actions, even though misinterpretations may lead to these. When religion asks you to believe in it it wants you to embrace the right mindset, one that has been predetermined by the holy book. In this way you believe your fate is being controlled by a greater force, but in reality, you simply are trusting in the model way of life provided by the religion and following it. A famous proverb in the Bible states ‘Trust in the Lord, with all your heart’. In reality, you trust in the way the Lord wants you to live your life, and feel that God has brought you on the right path, when you have yourself.

One example of how we can influence our future is Karma. According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary "the force generated by a person's actions held in Hinduism and Buddhism to perpetuate transmigration and in its ethical consequences to determine the nature of the person's next existence" is Karma. In other words, we can say it means the famous saying 'What you sow you can reap'. Karma includes the actions of your previous life and your present life. Your previous life was the past, something that cannot be changed. The present is what you can change, and that will effect the future. For those who firmly believe in Karma, your birth and the nature and circumstances of it is predestined by the actions you have taken in your last life. You can change the future and your next life though by the actions you take in the present.

For those seeking how to change your future for the good, there isn't a need to trust in religion or to have a certain mindset. Just starting spreading your goodness to everyone to make a positive impact on your future, because YOU and only you can change it.