The Power of Choice

Ahhhh the age old question: Do we have free will or are we just puppets in a punch and judy show? Well the truth is that it’s a bit of both really. (I promise you this is not a cop out!) It’s such a fundamental question about our lives that people ask on a daily basis and yet it is probably one of the things we’ll never know in our corporeal forms. I, for one, often wake up bruised and scarred from the events of the day before. Seldom do I wake up fresh with zeal and looking forward to the day ahead. But does that mean that my fate should leave me scarred and always and in a state of disrepair? In fact, the opposite is true, If you, like me, often wake up dreading the daily grind then maybe it’s out time we stopped fate in it’s tracks. After all do you want your fate to be that of someone who always wakes up on the wrong side of bed?

With this in mind there are two ways of further looking at this whole argument.

Firstly, is your fate, to you, so mundane to you that all it involves is the daily slog and nothing more? No enjoyment, no fulfillment, and no satisfaction with your actions? Do you live each day because you have to or is there a deliberate demeanor to which you act? If your fate is sealed, then what more is there for you to do apart from just go with the flow? This would also mean that there is little that can be done about the future except let it happen.

Not the most productive way to live your life. In my experience, this kind of thinking leads to an innate laziness and a tendency to procrastinate heavily.

The second way it to percieve this is that fate exists but that you are not at it’s mercy. Fate is a force we cannot control, however we can always determine what we choose to be in this moment. I choose how to perceive where I am right now and what to do with what has been bestowed on me. I can choose consciously what decisions to make and do what we feel is right for me. When faced with something, I can choose to deal with it as a challenge and to make the most of it, or to do it half heartedly.

It’s not always easy to choose the former, in fact, it is always the more difficult of the two. To be productive and proactive is never a quick coast down a hill. It’s more like being on a escalator walking up the stairs, you’re making the effort. And an unseen force is giving you a helping hand.

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• 100 Days of Vision…Day 6
• Go a little easy on yourself…
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