Can the destiny be compared with or distinguished from future?

If you believe in that sort of thing....

Your destiny can be foretold, but it can never be avoided.

The best example is the Greek myth of Oedipus. It was revealed to Oedipus's father that his own son would kill him and then sleep with his wife. So he drove a spike through the infant's ankles and left him in the countryside to die.

But Oedipus was found by someone, and they raised him as their own child. It was then foretold to Oedipus that he would murder his father and marry his mother. Horrified by this, he leaves his family. (He didn't know he was adopted) Meets his biological father on the road, gets into a fight and kills him. He then meets his biological mother and marries her.

By attempting to flee his destiny he made it happen. In short, destiny is cannot be escaped.

I would say that destiny would mean determined future. Destiny would imply no real freedom. If you consider future and destiny two different things, maybe seeing the future would be part of your destiny, as you would change it to what is your real destiny.

But that would mean that you saw a future that never happened, so it wasn't really the future, so I would say that even if you see the future, you wouldn't be able to change it.

The concept of "destiny," "fate" or "kismet" implies that it is inescapable. Therefore you wouldn't be able to change it even if you knew it. But that's where I totally disagree with the concept. In place of "fate" I see life like one of those games where there is a finite number of options (however great that number may be), and of course each choice carries you to a given outcome. But which option you choose is up to you. So if you walk out on your wedding, for example, you won't end up with Person X, living in a certain place, with a certain number of kids and a dog...but you will be carried to a new set of choices and decisions.

Do I believe in destiny? No, I don't. Because it all goes to your choice. And we have no idea, limited as we are, of how many "real" opportunities we miss by the choices we make.

If you believe in destiny then it is indistinguishable from the future, because whatever happens you will think that it was destined to happen.

It is only possible to see destiny by looking into the past, because until something has happened we can't know what our 'destiny' will be.

Destiny is future

Nope, fate and free will are the same thing. Even the belief in fate or free will is preordained, sometimes from the future.

<--- only when it's touched by destiny.

we make our own destiny

some of biggest ppl have n wen we r insuccessful we blame dat it waas our destiny