It’s not often that one’s life changes fundamentally, but it’s a mistake to think that if it does, you notice it. It’s often a subtle shift, with perhaps more than one pivotal point. Life isn’t as straightforward as people assume it is, despite its incessant linearity.And yet, it’s more straightforward thank you’d assume, despite the constant need to choose.
We think we make choices. But this is in fact a misconception. Choices make us. Everything we decide, we decide for our own benefit, in one way or another. Choices, therefore, aren’t so much choices as they are means to improve yourself or your circumstances. We will always choose the choice that we think will make us better. This means that essentially, your choice will be made before you made it.
Choices make you better. Or at least, they make you better insofar as you hope or think they will. You won’t always make the right choice, or a choice that, in hindsight, you think you shouldn’t have made. But in the end, that ‘wrong’ choice made you into who you are today.
We change based on our choices, our responses to our circumstances and our realisations of who we are and who we think we should be. In that, we strive to become who we think we should be. We have no other choice.