If only life was like a computer screen that showed radio buttons & checkboxes at every important turn of the age...Then it could be possible to choose...!!!
Well, not to choose, but to know that this is a moment of choice - for making a choice. Many of our larger than life decisions are just "taken" - nobody takes them. Education, jobs, relationships, kids, health, birth & death!
Or is it just an illusion?
If you have read Strange Life of Ivan Osokin by P. D. Ouspensky, you will realize that life is like a CD-R that can be played and replayed, but cannot be altered. Unsuccessful struggle of Ivan Osokin to correct his mistakes when given a chance to relive his past proves fruitless. Unless we transcend to a dimension that is higher than the current in our life, life cannot be altered.
Considered driving in a mesh of crowded roads and narrow alleys in a city?
Remember having to make a decision on every turn encountered - when the path is yet to be known?
Is it easier even when a map is aside?
It doesn't really matter whether we know it's a choice. In fact, having chosen the wrong roads on the first trip makes the second one easier, and very justifiably so!
Its a bliss when life doesn't offer you choices too fast. It's a boon that life doesn't offer them also in things that you are often uncapable of deciding for yourself.
It is life's way to put you through the all important journey - and not to the destination.
Most often, it's important to go with the flow. In matters that make difference to us, it's good.
It reserves our energies for things we can make difference into.
And thank life, of course!
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