Choices upon Choices

“The will does not choose between good and evil; it is its choice. Rather that or evil.”

        The German philosopher Karl Jaspers reiterated the point that everything we are is a result of the choices we make. Have you ever thought about this? I mean, really thought about it. Pearl Buck believed that people are what they most want to be. If you are lazy then you want to be lazy; if you are a quarrelsome person then that’s what you enjoy to be. If you are despondent and recessive, well, then that is the way you want to be – it’s your choice. The crux of the matter is that it is ultimately your choice whatever you want to be in life.

Now, should we force people to act otherwise? I don’t think so, for whatever does not spring from a man’s free choice is oppressive, you have to choose for yourself, and you have to choose right. I have to enclose a piece taken from Robert Frost’s poem called “The Road Not Taken” in today’s post. It reads:

I shall be telling this with a sigh, somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference.

He made a choice to take the road less travelled… that is what made the difference. Leo Tolstoy said that if you want to be happy, be! To live is to make choices upon choices, you cannot escape this truth. When making choices, do your best to choose that which is attainable and adequate; may you continuously make the right choices in life.

Making choices is an everyday act;

this is another undisputed fact.
The point is that we are what we decide to be,

so choosing right may contribute in setting you free.

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