When you hold on to something too tightly, you suffocate and kill it in the process. As you grow older, you will have to decide between going after what you want, and letting go with the thought that things are going exactly as it should, and that everything would be alright real soon. Feel free to not take my word for it, but you might wanna let go for a moment to let it breathe.
I don't know too much about fate, but at least I know that the things which are really ours will never require us to mentally and emotionally latch onto them. The best things never leave, and they aren't forced to keep, nor are they created with an ultimatum.
The things that we truly own are the things we never have to hold on tightly to make happen.
Live and let live.