"choose for yourselves this day...."
an ancient wise man uttered those words thousand and more years ago. yet today, we are still faced with the same dilemma. same issues. same problems.
some things never change.
choice.
a dreadful word for most of us. i know at least two persons who are 'choice-phobic'. they can never decide and panic everytime they are faced with choices. from simple things to life-altering decisions, like it or not, we HAVE to make choices everyday, every minute of our lives.
think about it.
from the moment we wake up, we choose, whether to be in a good mood or nasty. we choose what to wear. what to eat. desserts or not? where to go. whom to talk to. whom not to talk to.
we also make the more major decisions of what to do with our days. what to do with our lives. what to do with the issues we're running away from. what to do with the known and what to do with the unknown.
oh man. really, life can be a real big basket of choices isn't it?
sometimes i really hate it. why do i have to choose to be nice? why do i have to choose to be the one to say sorry? why do i have to choose to swallow my anger (and pride, most of the time) and why do i have to bla bla bla ...? oh, sure, i could also choose to be nasty. i could choose not (or never) to say sorry. i could choose to lash out. i could choose to ignore, manipulate, scheme and rant.
ok, pause for a minute.
so what if we chose the latter?
yes, i'd feel good for the moment but what about after that? you know what? choices are not about the spur-of-the-moment. yes, choices can be life changing (for example, choosing the wrong career. the wrong guy/girl to marry. choosing the wrong ... property etc) but more than just the choice, what we choose and what happens next are actually equally, or more, important.
a wrong word said in anger can destroy a person's life. a wrong decision to go with the 'in' crowd could result in a lifetime of regrets. a wrong anything could get us forever changed, for better or worse.
it's not about the moment. it's not about ourselves even. life has a funny way of inter-connecting. it affects others. it can build, it can also destroy.
so really, choose for yourselves, today ..... what you really want; now and forever.
October 7, 2008
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Excellent post!
I've become more and more convinced that we don't normally make choices at the time that we think that we are making them. Most of our choices are just a continuation of who we are, and we decided who we were going to be rather long ago. We can and do modify who we are and who we are going to be, but many of the choices we think we are making are really just a working out of who we are.
We all need someone (like you and Moses have done) to call us to those defining decisions that will then affect all of our later choices.
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