Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Choices

    Sometimes people have a difficult time when it comes to making choices.  They get confused because they often fail to see what the actual choice is.  They look at situations and circumstances and then they think they know what choice they have to make when in reality they have failed to fully understand what their choices are. 

     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.

QUOTE TO CONSIDER


THOUGHTFUL GEM

"If you're going to make a choice 
that you can't live with,
make a different one, but choose wisely!"




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