Choices
Whether you like it or not, Life is about choices. In any situaton, you have choices to make. If you cling to a choice when it's proven to be wrong, you'll be hurt. If you cling too long, it will destroy you.
As much as I could fill many screens with cynical, painful comments about that article, "How to have a happy marriage", it would be only beating myself up. One thing that's hard to swallow is that the most meaningful choices you make within yourself. No one wants to share them, not even those you love and cherish; or those you have to depend on for one reason or the other.
In the end, accepting that you are responsible for your own choices is liberating.
It frees you from hatred, resentment, and many other feelings that are more damaging to you to keep than to the targets.
There are times when your choices are few. A life changing injury can make your view of the world shrink to a terrifying tiny space.
The law is brutal. I think many bright minds are drawn to it because they see that brutality as a source of power. It is that, certainly. But the brutality of the law is impossible to avoid. At some point, all those bright minds must reconcile the ugly choice they've made with their own personal morality. -- I don't imagine it does much for their character.
Injury, disease, and age are painful facts of living. No one can avoid them. How a person handles their choices about them depends a great deal on the support around them. We draw strength, or are sapped to even deeper exhaustion -- and a sense of fewer choices -- by those around us.
The saddest person is one whose choices have led to living lies and loneliness.
As much as I could fill many screens with cynical, painful comments about that article, "How to have a happy marriage", it would be only beating myself up. One thing that's hard to swallow is that the most meaningful choices you make within yourself. No one wants to share them, not even those you love and cherish; or those you have to depend on for one reason or the other.
In the end, accepting that you are responsible for your own choices is liberating.
It frees you from hatred, resentment, and many other feelings that are more damaging to you to keep than to the targets.
There are times when your choices are few. A life changing injury can make your view of the world shrink to a terrifying tiny space.
The law is brutal. I think many bright minds are drawn to it because they see that brutality as a source of power. It is that, certainly. But the brutality of the law is impossible to avoid. At some point, all those bright minds must reconcile the ugly choice they've made with their own personal morality. -- I don't imagine it does much for their character.
Injury, disease, and age are painful facts of living. No one can avoid them. How a person handles their choices about them depends a great deal on the support around them. We draw strength, or are sapped to even deeper exhaustion -- and a sense of fewer choices -- by those around us.
The saddest person is one whose choices have led to living lies and loneliness.
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