Everyone has said at one point in their lives, " I didn't have a choice", yes you did, but maybe you chose wrong. I know I have, but even the wrong choices are made for a reason. I have made many wrong choices in life, things that now I look back on, could have spared me a lot of pain, but then I wouldn't be the person I am today. I have said, if I knew then, what I knew now, I would not have done that...but doing it then, made me wiser now.
Some of us feel that we don't have a choice, either because of family, kids, money, job or social group. Some people I know follow the masses, or are afraid to stop running around or take a break from work, because that would mean they have to face themselves. I lived for years on the run, from one job to another, from school, date, club, home and back to work again...only because I was running from myself. I had a choice, I didn't have to work 27/7, I didn't have to go out dancing and drinking every weekend, I didn't need another pair of shoes, I didn't have to go out with every guy that asked me ...but good or bad, I made the choices I did, to make me stronger today.
When we are kids, teenagers, we did have choices ( not many), but at least for me, I tried to make the choices that would make my parents and friends happy or proud. I made choices that I didn't always feel good about, or in my heart I did for others, not myself. But why as an adult would you chose to let someone else make a choice for you? If I can pay taxes, I don't need anyone to tell me what or how I should live my life...that comes from within me, and no one else knows what truly lies inside of my heart...but me.
I came to see, some people don't want to make choices on their own because that would mean if it didn't work out, they have no one to blame but themselves. Mistakes happen, not learning from them and making the same ones over and over - is what causes people to put their lives in the hands of others...who holds your life?
So, I leave you with this thought...
"Love life, even without pleasure, but more importantly, love the pleasure that is life."
xoxo
BT&HB
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