Monday, November 5, 2007

Choices

"人生道路千万种 唯独一道必行之"
Translated to be: "There are many different paths in life, and one must take only one path."

We make choices everyday on every smallest possible thing you can think of. You think before you make that choice, or you don't. And you will only have two outcomes - favourable or unfavourable.

For things so familiar, you don't even think before making a decision. And when the outcome is unfavourable, you only have yourself to blame. For things so important and influential, you can, need and must think before making decision. You may take awhile, few days, weeks or years to make your decision, but when it has to be decided, you have to decide.

After you make your choice on something, you could suddenly think you had just made the wrong choice. You go moody. Sleepless. Regrets. Nothing you can do, its your choice. You try to change your decision. You try to avoid the possible unfavourable outcomes that may surface. Bad? Definitely as it sounds.

Most unexpectedly, the outcome din't come as you had imagined. It may not be understood why your anticipated unfavourable outcome never appear. And you start to wonder why were you worried in the first place. That, is life. Full of unexpectency.

Still, you have to face outcomes of your own choices. Regret or not, you can't do anything to change your choice.

Make choices, don't regret, and face its outcomes; with joy or sadness. That, is making choices in life.

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