May 14, 2007
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Choices
Just saw Spider-Man 3. It was pretty good. Not the best of the three, but not the worst, and not as bad as I was led to believe it would be. My favorite part of it was this quote by Peter:
“No matter what comes our way, no matter what battle we have raging inside of us, we always have a choice. My friend Harry taught me that. He chose to be the best of himself. Our choices are what makes us who we are… and we always have the choice to do what’s right.”
Sometimes through the course of our daily lives, we complain. Complaining is normal, because inevitably there’s always something in your life that goes awry. There are those people, though (and everyone knows someone like this) who complain about everything in their life, for whom nothing ever seems to go right. Who we are is partially influenced by our genetics and partly influenced by our experiences. When we’re young, we don’t get the benefit of choosing those experiences, but once we’re older we have a choice. We can choose to let our past consume us, or we can choose to deal with it creatively, rather than becoming the victims of our own inner demons.
Whenever we are faced with a choice in our lives, sometimes what we want doesn’t coincide with what’s the right thing to do. In other cases, though, there is no real right or wrong choice, it’s just a matter of which choice is more true to yourself. Either way, it’s not your feelings or your past or even your inner personality that defines who you are, it’s the choices you decide to make. We are defined by the choices we make. I may believe myself to be a good person, but if I choose to do wrong against others, it’s those choices that define me, not my inner feelings and desires to do good because despite my feelings I have chosen to act in a manner contrary to what I truly want.
Own the choices you make. If you want your life to be different, if you want the course of your destiny to be different, if you’re unhappy with how your life is, then make different choices. Examine who you are, discover your true heart and make appropriate choices that go along with that. No matter what, you always have a choice. Make the choices that will bring you to where you want to be.
Comments (6)
life is all about choices…. sometimes we have to make the hard choices that can alter the realm of our existence altogether, sometimes it comes easy…either way.. it’s a choice… screaming “CHOOOOSE ME!” doesn’t work all the time…
Ahhh…choice. This brings back memories of some relayed messages…
Making choices requires courage and ego strength. Something that we gain as we mature into adolescence and adulthood. I was just reading recently about some social anxiety disorders that seem to keep a small percentage of folks from experiencing life to the full. I know you’re not addressing that issue here. But I thought it would be interesting reading. They’re called hikikimori (click) in Japan.
good post. there are far too many people that are so short-sighted and unable to see the big picture of how free we are to do what we please. in a world this messed up, i would think that that’s one of the most precious liberties we have, and so many take it for granted out of sheer laziness. like they say…
“nothing is so difficult that it is not achievable. time consuming, maybe. but not difficult,” -oscar wilde
i came across your site a week ago, and i just want to say that i truly enjoyed reading your blogs. thanks!
Hi. I’m not being held accountable for any of my ramblings, either, so if you want to say something to me, go ahead.
-j. only j