Making the right choices in life

 A friend's article on 'Choices' motivated me to write this....

I wont say that choosing 'helps' us create our lives....I'd say it actually CREATES our life! Its not a mere assisting tool….its what decides our fate!

How many times have we heard people say…"Ohhh this is fate/my kismet!...this was meant to happen!” . That’s just a way of throwing the blame on someone/something else and not accepting responsibility for your actions.

Philosophically speaking, in life, I have always believed that in ANY situation, we are faced with 2 choices. Life over and over again brings you to a fork where you must go either this way or that. Whatever path u choose, your life flows in that direction with respective consequences. If it’s good, we applaud ourselves…and if it turns out for the worse, then we blame fate! Everything in our life, be it our choice of career, life-partner & marriage, relationships, friends, even enemies! Our appearance, hobbies ….actually ANYTHING….well almost anything! (How many times have we heard we can choose anything except the family we are born into) is the outcome of our choices. They say that even diseases are mere manifestations of our thoughts and subconscious which culminate from bad choices that we have made in life.

About making the right choice, is however our choice. Do you want to decide with your head or your heart? What is good and what is bad, is however left to our discretion. So what we decide in a given situation is what leads to the action that takes place as a result of that choice.

In hindsight, I have to admit, I have made many good and bad choices in life…. Be it the choice of career, friends (how many of us can say we have been let down by someone we trusted so much in life?) and so many other things in my day-to-day life. Who is responsible for what I am today? 

ME! I take sole responsibility for everything I am today. Everytime, I had a choice. Friends in school, peers in college, Commerce or Arts? This car or that? Study here or abroad? Marry this man or someone else? Have a baby now or later? Have a baby at all?? Some choices turned out great….while some were bummers!

Accepting yourself as you are and having the confidence in yourself will give you the ability to make the right choices in life. Make your choice with faith and confidence in yourself, and sit back and enjoy the course it takes!

The journey of life is YOUR choice!