Life's mysteries is beyond human understanding. Only a few chosen ones are privileged to know just a little bit of life.

Although hope may fail us, sometime, but we still have to cling to it. That's a survival hack.

and he said something about leaders of tomorrow,

Tomorrow? The same tomorrow that isn't assured. Meanwhile if the leaders your friend was referring to are the young people we have now, then I'm afraid, we may likely not have those leaders we hope for.

I am still battling with this thing about fate, I don't know whether to believe it controls everything or it is in our hands to decide what happens to us.

Although each of our destinies have been decided before we were born, I believe that one also have a choice to either stick with it or change it. The story of Ichabod in the Bible is a good example.

Thank you for reading and sharing your thoughts
!BBH