Maybe it’s not whether the universe {God?} presents us with options (it might), but whether or not we take them. Or whether or not we do the leg work leading up to the option that the universe presents. What if we surrendered to the things that are presented to us and just do them. Emphasis here is on the word, “do” or in other words, work hard at it to make that thing presented to us come to fruition. Maybe it’s like that. Maybe it is a combination of both.