The Choices we make....

All through our childhood we were taught stories of how people succeeded, how wars were won, how goals were achieved and in all these lessons we learnt of the sacrifices made, not only for the achievement of their goals but sometimes for the greater good. We learn to make these sacrifices ourselves and hope for the best to come out of it but sometimes it just doesn’t, we start to fear the very grounds we stand, a fear of irrationality. Did we ever ask why?

The reason is because when we put everything we've got, our wisdom, our power, and our belief into one thing and still we fail it’s for so long we can lie to our own conscience. It’s easy to stand on the side lines and wish better luck next time or asking the player to work harder next time without knowing what he went through. Sometimes you just give up, you feel like leaving everything and setting off to someplace without expectations; these are moments when you are too broken to be fixed. The world will always want you to run but there are times you have to choose whether to keep running or lay down for a while. Sometimes it’s okay to take a break and refocus.

“You are a winner until you lose everything”

And you never lose everything, because the day you actually lose everything, the meaning of life would change for you: your goals, your ambitions, your priorities, you would see the people who actually care about you and then there would be them. That’s all that matters across the line.

An apple falling on Issac Newton lead him to say that “Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.” Maybe if the apple would have fallen on his head today his hypothesis would have varied. Today we live in a world of choices we make and the ones we chose to make; the difference is as simple as day and night. There are times in each of our lives we face this dilemma and that’s the moment where we realize what all the fuss is about. The third law of Newton became our first, the ever sounding alarm of how everything we do today will create ripples in our future scares us – being a second late would change the name on world record for fastest driver, being a minute late could change what happens on an ICU table; everything has the power to change something; something might be as small as the color of your car to the name of your life partner.

It is said that our destiny is written and no matter what we do we will have to face it and we give up an everything believing that destiny will take its course. But did we ever stop to ask the question – What if? What if on same pages it was written – “As you choose.” And also if there is a scenario where we cannot control what happens, we can at least control how it affects us.

As a human being we are always looking for something – meaning of life, a road to take, a goal to pursue and above all being creatures of logic we look for answers to WHY; but rarely do we question is why we need these answers, why does everything needs to be justified as it is. In a world of 8 billion people and 8 billion opinions we keep searching for something that would define us, add a value to us but we somewhere fail to see wha t’s left behind in this. We look for reasons to run from a situation but what we should look for is what we have lost; a time when logic was way behind on the road from emotions and that’s what made those moments priceless. Maybe some things are meant to be lost as we move forward, that’s what life is, and we learn, we adapt, we improvise and we survive; but not to be forgotten. I may not talk to my friend who I shared my lunch box with, but I do remember that my first house warming gift to someone was a lock – you may call me crazy but to a 14 year old me it made sense. 

For some reason we make our own choices, choose our own priorities and they will go on to define us for all our life no matter how small. So choose wisely what’s worth giving up something you can’t take back.