A choice is the act of selecting or making
a decision when faced with two or more possibilities within a given circumstance. People often get the “two or more possibilities”
confused so they don’t understand exactly what their choice is. Let me give you a current situation as an
example.
Recently a gentleman was escorted off an airline
flight from California to Colorado because he refused to wear a face mask due
to the Coronavirus pandemic. He was
highly upset because of this decision made by the airline. He evidently confused his choice! He thought his choice was (1) to wear a face
mask on the flight or (2) not to wear a face mask. So, with these options he was choosing NOT
to wear the mask.
However, the airline had informed all
passengers that wearing a face mask was mandatory. This man’s choice was (1) wear a face mask
and get on the flight or (2) NOT! In
evaluating his situation, he did know that he was going to have to make a
choice. However, he chose to view the
options of the wrong event in which to make his decision. Wearing the mask should not have been his
issue, but rather whether he was going to fly on the plane or not.
We see that as humans we are often
required to make decisions or choices on matters within our lives every
day. At times these choices or very
insignificant, but at other times they have a major effect upon our life. Just consider the example above of the man
who now was unable to get to Colorado because of his poor choice in not wearing
the required face mask.
It also seems that there are many who
continue to make poor choices and never really learn how to improve their lives
by making correct choices. It doesn’t
matter about the situations that this may involve: a bad choice is always a bad choice!
This reminds me of a man I met when I was
in the military. We had a “moral meeting”
where we were going to be encouraged to make good choices in our lives. This man (at the time of this occurrence) was
in his mid to late 40s. He had been in and
out of the penal system most of his adult life.
Now he was making these speeches at various military bases so that perhaps
others would learn from the poor choices he had made and not make those same
mistakes themselves.
Listening to some of the stories of his
activities during his life it became obvious that he was a person, who despite
his good intentions, always made the wrong choices within his life. However, he summed up his life philosophy with
this statement and example: “You can choose to do whatever you want to in your
life as long as you’re willing to accept the consequences. If you want to tell your boss what you really
think about him, go ahead, if you’re willing to accept the consequences. He may fire you. He may do worse. But if you’re willing to accept the consequences
go ahead and tell him.”
I’m glad you have gotten to this point in
this blog post. I had a choice on what I
was going to write within this post and I chose to include the information you
read above. You had the choice to read
this blog or not. I’m glad you chose to
read it. But if you chose NOT to
read it - - - well, I guess that is a mute issue! It was your choice.
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