Keep Shooting Until You're out of Bullets

There are a lot of different attitudes toward fate and inevitability.

The thirteenth century Persian poet, Omar Khayyam (as translated by Edward FitzGerald) wrote:

"The moving finger writes: and, having writ,
Moves On: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it."

The 20th century theologian, Reinhold Neibuhr, composed a prayer, known as the Serenity Prayer, that takes a somewhat more activist approach:

"God, give us grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other."

Today on one of the Sunday morning talk shows, LA Times columnist Steve Lopez offered yet another approach to dealing with the future (of newspapers):
"I'm going to keep shooting until I'm out of bullets."

Or as the poet Dylan Thomas put it:
"Do not go gentle into that good night..."