The door on the left, or the one on the right…life is full of choices. Just like Neo was faced with the choice of either going out to the machines, or saving the life of trinity, whom he loved…he chose to do the second. Was that the right thing, being selfish about his love when there were a million lives to be saved? I don’t know. I cannot be the judge. For I myself don’t know what my reaction is going to be if I am in such a situation.
Though one thing is for sure, life always presents you with choices. And the irony with a choice is, that there is no way of knowing if it is the right choice. You cannot bank on your own experience, or the experience of people elder to you, to make the right one. Simply because there is one variable in life, which is time.
Now I’ve ranted about time earlier. The relentless variable, the catalyst of change, whatever you call it….though choices are unrelenting as well. And they are tougher to make.
Its just like deciding whether you are going to live on a coin toss, and the only choice you have is to call either heads or tails. What might appear a right choice when you are making it, could actually turn out to be the worst.
What is actually wonderful is that the human mind compensates in its own ways for the such bad choices. It moulds itself in a shell of compromise, that makes all mistakes appear good, and it makes life to look sweet.
I was having a discussion with a friend today, about life, and love and stuff. I found myself putting an interesting point. As we move forward in life, and make compromises for whatever reasons we do, we lose the ability to love. What we do gain, is the ability to appear to love, and care…but the true feelings are lost forever. I just hope I do not lose my ability to love with a true heart…but the thought surely scares me.
I digressed! Well, that is what happens when you have a thought too many going around in your head. So, coming back to making choices, is there ever a right way to make a choice? unfortunately no…there isn’t. Life is inevitable, so are its numerous choices, so there is no avoiding decision making. Just that be careful, be very careful. As some decisions can cost you a life…not someone else’s, but your own.
And here’s a beautiful thought that a friend mailed me…
Don’t let some one become PRIORITY in your life when you are just an OPTION in THEIR life
Straightforward, harsh, and sadly very true. The question is, how easy is it to become a priority in another person’s life, and how easy is it to not make a person a priority in your life?
The question forms a perfect circle, right? Do you have the answer?
I certainly do not!
u r right, about choices,
i think most of the time, we just put too much pressure on ourselves to make the right choice…
on not loving, its more due to the mistrust of love, we focus so much on the result, of how others view us, that we forget to concentrate on how we feel. its like learning a subject just to score marks, and not caring if u dont understand the parts of the subject, which wont come in the exam..
but whats the point of winning the world, if the price is, losing yourself..