Disclaimer: I don't own Katekyo Hitman Reborn!
My name is Tsunayoshi Sawada, but my friends just call me Tsuna.
I'm not one to believe in things such as fate. It is too fickle. Some people have tried to see and even change the future, but not many have succeeded. It is a difficult endeavour, after all, yet I have been one of the few successful ones. Nonetheless, I believe that worrying about that kind of things will just get you grey hair. We don't need to know what future lies ahead of us to live the present. In normal circumstances we don't have a clue about what fate has in store for us, which means that we can't do anything to change it beforehand – or afterwards, depending on the point of view.
I'll use myself as an example. I grew up as a clumsy kid known as No good Tsuna. My grades were abysmal, I had no charisma, no friends, and I believed that there was nothing special about me. What kind of future should such a useless person expect? Nothing. I simply expected nothing. Life, the future, fate... I assumed they could bring me nothing. No expectations, no disappointments. That led me to become an extremely unmotivated individual.
One seemingly ordinary morning, everything changed. I got a home tutor who would help me be worthy of becoming the Tenth boss of Vongola, a mafia family. That's what Reborn, a hitman cursed into a child's body, said with utter confidence. I didn't notice at first, but he gave me something precious. A will. Not a dying will, as he always says, but a will to live. My life stopped being meaningless as I made friends with those who would join me in my adventure to become Vongola Decimo. For the first time, I wasn't alone. For the first time, I had a goal, something that I really wanted to achieve. Things didn't always go as I would have wanted, but I overcame countless hardships to get to where I am today. To whom I am right now.
Who would have expected No good Tsuna to become such an important figure in the mafia world? Not me, I'm pretty sure of that.
As I said, we can't know what the future will bring us. Of course, no one stops us from making a guess at it. Sadly, or maybe luckily, a guess is only that. A guess. Something that may or not be right. People can waste their time making a guess, but it's not worth it. In spite of this, sometimes we can't help it. I know I can't.
"Will I live to see tomorrow?"
"Will my friends come back home unscathed?"
More often than not I wonder about the near future, but that doesn't mean I'm not curious about what my life will be in a decade or so.
"Will I have children?"
"Will they grow up virtually fatherless, as I did?"
My advice is as follows. Focus on your present, as it determines what will become of you tomorrow. Future is simply unpredictable, so don't give up hope despite how bad things may look. Don't forget that this is coming from a kid whose future seemed dark as a moonless night but grew up into the brightest sky as a man.