Saturday, January 5, 2013

We choose

My dad and his brothers are under the weather. Dad's in hospital with a weak lung, liver and heart failure. His brother Paul is fighting lung infection and his other brother Lawrence is battling the c-word.

Everything is a choice. This is life's greatest truth and hardest lesson.

It is a great truth because it means we have power to live the life we imagine. It is a hard lesson, because we have chosen the life we are living right now.

We have chosen the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the thoughts we think. We have chosen to believe certain ideas. We have chosen the people we call friends.

We chose, and in doing so, we design our lives. Some may say that we do not choose our circumstances. You'd be surprised. If we choose to smoke, we may hurt our lungs. If we choose to be obese, we have hurt our liver.

Life is choices. Love is a choice. Anger is a choice. Fear is a choice. Courage is a choice.
We choose.

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