Defining Your Future
Former Fat Guy dot Com wrote:
A person encounters hundreds of situations, personalities, and events in a day, in every step and turn one takes. All these circumstances require one simple consistent act at all times: to choose and to decide. Every second, with every breath is a decision to live, a choice made.
One’s life is a series of choices, each of which affects the next second one’s future in different degrees, depending on what’s tied to that decision. This reality is what control means.
As early as infancy, a person is already designed to make decisions automatically. No one can dictate on a baby on their bowel movement, or their feeding time. Their system decides for them. But as their brains develop, they are slowly empowered to make choices, though highly influenced by their environment. Ideally, as one gets older and wiser, they also become less susceptible to external influences and more self-reliant on their decisions. Though sadly, this is not always the case.
With the millions of choices everyday, the temptation to go with the flow is high. Decisions are delegated to the world and its inhabitants. To be or not to be is indeed the question. And sometimes, the simple decision to answer this big question is not even chosen. Why? Because it’s always easier to set it aside.
In truth, the answer to this question does not lie on what one chooses, but on the act of choosing. If one leaves this question rhetorical, failing to act is a choice to not be. If one […]
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