Choices

Choices, life is nothing if it isn’t choices.

Layer upon layer of choices, each one distinct. Each one may have the weight of mountains, each one affecting what comes next. A profound, constantly expanding, layering of what becomes our life.

Not all that happens in our lives are choices that we make, but choices that others have made that involve us. This happens constantly. Sometimes to the detriment of those involved, forever changing the course of our lives.

Still, what we choose to do after (if there is an after) is our choice. Sometimes we have mere moments to decide. Decisions that may effect which future we end up living.

Some choose to narrow down their choices, choosing to live their lives in an ever increasingly narrow path of orderly design. Trying vainly to control everything so they no longer need to decide, no longer need to choose. Living instead a life of extreme sameness day in and day out, simply to avoid the inevitable stress of having to decide.

Life plays out regardless. As soon as a decision has been made, it is cast in stone. Creating a cascade of infinite possibilities for our future.

So, as we move into this new year, with it’s infinite choices, we should pause, we should gather our resolve to make sound choices that will place us on a path (hopefully correcting some past choices) to a better future.

Choose well.