No Third Option
Ideally, at conception, we are given an unlimited amount of choices in order to successfully accomplish whatever we may wish to in our life. In reality, our choices have already been limited by the womb we preside in. Are we rich? Are we lucky enough that our genetics provide us with a healthy life partnered with attractive features? Are we male, or female? Will we have cancer when we are 8? How about when we turn 80?
Will our life be hard?
Each choice that is made, either for or by us, changes the future options we will have. Will we remember the good about a dead relative, or will we see only defeat, and unhappiness? Each choice gives us a new perspective, and while we try to attain the old selves we once owned, we are forever changed in our presence.
In addition, sometimes there is the outcome we wish as a choice, and sometimes there are only options we wish we did not have to choose from. In fact, sometimes the choices are so undesirable, we wish we could simply slip back into the life we had before.
However, that is the one choice we never have. We remember, and anyone else who was involved remembers.
One of the hardest things I am still trying to accept is that life cannot be erased. I am forced to realize, everyday, this is the life I lead. There is not another I can have, because any choice I make today is already limited by my past actions. This idea may be considered pessimistic, but no, it is rather REALISTIC. There is no escape from the past because given the opportunity you would live it THE EXACT SAME because you have already proven that YOU, not someone else, would make those choices.
Our future is set.
Tonight, I make a choice, and know that neither one of the options are the one I wanted. It is fruitless to believe there is a third, and instantly I am relieved to know that given the option in another life, I would make the same choice.
No third option. No change of plan. Sometimes life gives us the opportunity to see exactly what we made for ourselves in our past choices. Never regret, because you are still you, and there is no choice that can change it.
Will our life be hard?
Each choice that is made, either for or by us, changes the future options we will have. Will we remember the good about a dead relative, or will we see only defeat, and unhappiness? Each choice gives us a new perspective, and while we try to attain the old selves we once owned, we are forever changed in our presence.
In addition, sometimes there is the outcome we wish as a choice, and sometimes there are only options we wish we did not have to choose from. In fact, sometimes the choices are so undesirable, we wish we could simply slip back into the life we had before.
However, that is the one choice we never have. We remember, and anyone else who was involved remembers.
One of the hardest things I am still trying to accept is that life cannot be erased. I am forced to realize, everyday, this is the life I lead. There is not another I can have, because any choice I make today is already limited by my past actions. This idea may be considered pessimistic, but no, it is rather REALISTIC. There is no escape from the past because given the opportunity you would live it THE EXACT SAME because you have already proven that YOU, not someone else, would make those choices.
Our future is set.
Tonight, I make a choice, and know that neither one of the options are the one I wanted. It is fruitless to believe there is a third, and instantly I am relieved to know that given the option in another life, I would make the same choice.
No third option. No change of plan. Sometimes life gives us the opportunity to see exactly what we made for ourselves in our past choices. Never regret, because you are still you, and there is no choice that can change it.
posted by Nat Rivera at 6:11 PM
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