Thursday, April 23, 2009

Choices and Options - A Share....

In the time of a single second, our lives can change immeasurably because life moves at a pace more rapid than anything we can consciously understand sometimes. But many, if not most, of the choices we make each and every day are the product of instantaneous reactions most of the time. Having a significant impact on what we do and how we do it. It is for this reason that we should learn to wield what control we can over the different things that do come our way. If take into account that all we think and act upon will shape the existence we so very well understand and live within each and every day.

 

Can we take a deliberate action and make a change, where there is a need for change? Seemingly the nature most of all of us is based on a routine in which we are understand and are used too. However we do change and we do have that choice of how we make our choices.

 

 

Hypothetically, if we all were students we would have an ever changing routine based on new subjects to study, books that had to be read, and papers that would have to be turned in at a certain time. Not to mention tests. There would not be a choice. We would either succeed in abiding by what we have to shift our thoughts towards or we would fail.

We would not only fail grades, we would fail ourselves.

 

If our intention was to obtain something we better be sure in what we desire to do. As I recall how many left school at some point in time because it was not convenient and they were not going to make a change in any manner.

Drop outs in high school that could have continued as they had the means and as well as the ones that dropped out of university after the first three months. Regardless of how much schooling we have had, it's a scenario from which to make a point.

 

 

If we look at the aspects of life that lay ahead of us, we find those choices as close for some and as so far out of reach for others. But we all do have the chance and privileges of our own choices. We do have that choice.

Decisions and more decisions - but how many times does one look deep within and make the decisions to challenge themselves and embark on something new.

 

For the ones that have made and taken the risk in making transitions are some of the people we have come to see as the sphere of our influence. For my existences and choices as well as yours are the consequences of our thoughts/actions. Making all of us our own building system of growing people by way of our actions, choices that not only give way to a direction but also continually lends the growth.

8 comments:

  1. We are all students, in a class called Life. Oh, yes, there are those unfortunate circumstances that may fall our way, it's how we handle the lesson and keep moving forward at our own pace. There is not an exact right or wrong way, it's what we learn and take on the journey with us. It's what we learn to leave behind.
    It is a school of a higher spiritual education and we are all in class everyday.
    Great writing post you have here. I enjoyed the read~smilies~d~

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  2. Thanks Darlene it's been a challenge at times but I there are time I do believe in this and then sometimes I ponder on my own writes it's been a challenge of a few days and sometimes you can't find the answer but you just do the best that you can. My feelings.

    Thanks...

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  3. Darlene, great response hitting many points I would have made. Jack, you are waxing philosophical tonite. Great photo above, I like the symmetry of the plantings. A good evening to you.

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  4. This again is a copy of my own writing from a while back....but the picture was taken tonight....I am in a reflective mood with all things considered...

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  5. LOL,Jack, we all ponder those things.That's love,good post.

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  6. Yes, very true Jack. The biggest change we make doesn't have anything to do with action and behaviour, it's a mind change and about our spiritual education as Darlene just said...

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  7. Once, when I was a mere fifteen year old boy I was stopped by a Texas State Trooper and put into jail for driving without a license. I spent the night there as Daddy was angry I had been caught...?

    In the jail I had no decisions to make other than I decided to remove the mattress from the cot and sleep without it. At the time I thought a night in the Spring, Texas jail wasn't too bad. I had no decisions to make, no responsibilities to fulfill, no place to go nor tasks to do. For an evening and a night it seemed to me the Life of Reilly.

    Then again, I was only fifteen and wasn't likely to do much of anything without being told to.

    Sometimes I want something close to that moment of freedom ... You all are invited to my funeral.

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