Confused? Has Ade finally lost it? Has he finally run out of things to say to such an extent that he is duplicating posts ('Decisions Decisions' followed by 'Choice')?
To be honest I had to check myself; I am not sure whether there is dictionarily a difference between a decision and a choice (would you like me to research it and bore the bejesus out of you with an explanation? tell me if you do........no?.......okay, have it your way then....); the words are interchangeable, but to me a decision is proactive (you decide), whereas a choice is reactive, the response to a situation that is thrust upon you, or you are thrust into. I have covered decisions, but the unpredictability - and often cruelty - of life may well make our choices that much more important. I believe Albus Dumbledore said it best when Mr. Potter was worried that he might have ended up in naughty-wizarding house Slytherin....
'it is not our abilities to make us who we are; it is our choices'
How true. We all have skills, but it is our choice what use we make of them; for good or for evil, for the people or for yourself, for money, for power, for happiness, for peace, for love. You see how important choice now becomes; it really can move mountains, but you know what I love about choice (now this will really mess with your head).....?
You always have one, you always have a choice; very occasionally you don't......but even then, you do!
No, it's okay; I haven't been sitting in the sun for too long (there isn't enough sun to stroke anyway!), I really am talking sense.....or at least I think I am talking sense even if no one else is.
Good things happen, bad things happen; we deal with them, we navigate through them with decision and choice. We rarely notice our choices for the good stuff, they may be instinctive rather than conscious, but we still make them (do we choose to control it? do we choose to let go and enjoy it with freedom? do we take action to prolong it? do we choose to worry about it ending? do we choose to curb our feelings for the same reason?).
Choice becomes slightly more prominent during the bad times; how many times do we exclaim in frustration that 'I don't know what to do'?! It's not usually true; we know what the options are, but are just too nervous about making a choice. We even often know precisely what we are going to choose but for some daft reason procrastinate over committing ourselves to it..
Choice is good, it is exciting, full of possibility! It is a path; it is a 'way'. I am rarely put in a position where choice is taken away from me, and I am a firm believer that there is 'always a way'; the destination will be the same even if the original route is not.
If you are sensing a 'but' coming along you are mighty perceptive (you clever thing!), as there are those occasions when things happen to us over which we have no control. At those times we say we have 'no choice in the matter'; and yet, we still do. Okay we do not have any control over the events that befall us, but we do have the choice of how we react to it. One can choose how to take the lack of success on a prime time Saturday night tv programme (with grace, or with bitterness). Even someone who is dying, has the chance to choose how they will die; do they do it with dignity, providing an example to those still living, or do they choose die badly?
Think about it; no matter what happens to you, you will always have a choice in front of you. It is just so (technical term coming up here......) brilliant!
Whatever choices come your way; I hope you make the right ones!
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