Interestingly, "Outlander" on Amazon Prime - one of the most romantic and carnal TV series I have seen - provides the perfect background to this age-old philosophical dilemma and the central issue free will which lies at the heart of all romantic drama.
"Strange, the things you remember. The people, the places, the moments in time burned into your heart forever while others fade in the mist.
I've always known I've lived a life different from other men. And when I was a lad, I saw no path before me. I simply took a step and then another. Ever forward, ever onward, rushing toward someplace I knew not where. And one day, I turned around and looked back and saw that each step taken was a choice , to go left, to go right, to go forward or to even not go at all.
Every day, every man has a choice between right and wrong. Between love and hate. Sometimes between life and death. And the sum of those choices becomes your life. The day I realised that is the day I became a man."
Perhaps it's no mere coincidence that Walter Scott also chose the Highlands as the background to "Waverley" 1815 - the first romantic novel of the modern era.
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