I just ate a bowl of soup while doing my billing. ... The soup was good, the billing came out great, I will be around another month for sure.
The fact you have been reduced to eating vegetable soup for dinner makes me doubt this.
I think the issue you are all wrestling with is one of chaos theory.
Lets suppose you intend to go to the shop for a can of coke. Its not far.
You could take the car, or walk.
You could elect to put on a jumper first.
Finding a jumper might make you bump into a lady who wants to talk. Had you just gone straight there you may have missed her.
She talked about her son and his fiancee going to Spain. His face reminds you of a potato.
You think a bit about maybe taking a holiday of your own.
You walk into the shop and you end up buying a can of coke and 4 pounds of King Edward potatoes.
Little things happen and they effect the outcome of how you might think about something later. And its no more predictable than what the weather will be on Christmas day. You might expect snow. You might also expect to be furious if in 5 years you find your wife cheating ... but you might instead by that time be sick of her shit and glad she gave you a good enough reason to finally divorce her. We don't know what will happen to us in the future in any moment, and so we don't know what we will think about a particular thing at some point in the future.
But when that time arises, you'll have a thought and you can act on it or not. The future is not set, and neither are your opinions. That's free will.