Tonight reading my friends status on facebook which said "I don't like it when people say you always have a choice. Sometimes when you evaluate the consequences of that choice it is really not a choice".
I replied saying that I agree with her as I sometimes feel that life is a series of "have too's" which we try turn into "love too's".
There are people we meet and are magnetically drawn to, friendships and dating relationships. We live, we learn, we fall and we get up. At the time when we make decisions that was the best we could do at that point in our lives, not necessarily the most wise decision but it was the best we could do. We look back and think "I could've/should've done this or that". But if we are honest with ourselves we are not as clever as we think we are and we are just humans trying to navigate through emotions, life and turmoil.
What is the use of regretting and being over critical of ourselves? Where is the peace in that kind of past or present? What if for one moment we could just rest in the truth that regardless of whether we are making the best decisions we can choose to be content. And maybe as we do that, that moment may turn into another moment and that into another and another. And maybe, just maybe, as we look back we won't just see a life that is made up of right and wrong, good and bad decisions but instead a life of many moments of contentment and peace...
Some opportunities come to some and life happens to others. For some it wasn't a choice of theirs but something given to them. Some things happen and it catches you off gaurd, but the same action wouldn't have effected someone else as "badly". This makes me think that we don't have all that much choice in the bigger picture.
As the saying goes, "the right person at the right time" is true. Some people get jobs and live abundant lives while others struggle with the same qualification. One might exclaim that "life is just unfair" and yes it is!
Tradegy happens and there is no choice whether to be responsible or not, it kinda just forces you to grow up, act responsible and mature. When we are thrown in the deep end, it is obvious that we are going to float and try and get ourselves out, when it happened we had no intention of drowning and we also had no knowledge how deep it was or could be!!!
In concluding this deep post (I told u I can get very deep at night) I think that choosing peace is going to be tough in an everchanging and unpredictable world. But above all we are going to need peace to float instead of sink and to fight instead of die . Friends let's muster up all perseverence to live and be known as a person who says, "I would love to" and comands drudgery to leave through the back door.
Be encouraged friends!
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