Life is full of choices... can we sometimes just not choose for once?

@chiyosan (30184)
Philippines
December 24, 2012 7:18pm CST
Have you noticed this? Life is full of choices, every single day, every single moment... we make choices, when we wake up and tae a bath.. we choose what clothes we put on, what tasks we will do first at work, what to eat, when do we get home... and so on... aren't all these small choices, but when we sum them all up it makes a part of what is us. what we choose is who we are, after all... have you ever wished that you sometimes didn't have to decide? haha of course what i shared are just some of the things we have to choose, and they are but small stuffs and may not be so significant... but what about the decisions we make that might change our lives, what job to take, to take up a promotion, switch jobs, and so on... hay life indeed is really made up of a lot of things and that if we can only have a break sometimes... it should really be something that can take a load of stress!
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@bittu27 (86)
• India
25 Dec 12
Yes, our life is full of choices and also full of mystery. actually this life of ours in this earth has been given to us for two purposes. one is for spiritual progress and the other one is to clear our karmic account. but nowadays very less people have got interest in spirituality. our life has became very materialistic and todays we are totally dependent on materials from the early morning till the night.
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@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
26 Dec 12
thank you bittu for your response. i am sometimes wishing that the life we have can have fewer choices, but then again.. isn't it really the wonderful though to have the power to choose... its a gift after all that we can choose what will our lives be, that we are not some dolls with keys, or robots with batteries.
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@Dominique25 (9464)
• United States
25 Dec 12
I agree with you. We have to make so many different choices everyday. Sometimes it does get annoying to always have to be making decisions. There are definitely big decisions we have to make that will have a huge impact on our life. Hopefully we are to take time and really think about these decisions so that we can make the best one.
@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
26 Dec 12
Don't you sometimes wish that whatever we have to choose, we can always be sure that it is of course going to be the best ever? haha it just is sometimes that one choice that we make that could really make the difference. Thank you Dominique for your response and taking time to share your views on this matter.
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• United States
26 Dec 12
Yes life would be so much easier if I knew that the decisions I made would be right. It would save me a lot of time and stress as well. It's too bad that things aren't this way. We would know the best way too work and support our family and how to take care of everything else in an efficient manner.
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@hotsummer (13835)
• Philippines
25 Dec 12
not making a choice is a choice in itself. So life is all about choices.
@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
26 Dec 12
indeed... it is all about choices in life after all.. to choose not to CHOOSE is a choice. hehe :D
• Philippines
26 Dec 12
I wish it is as simple as that..you stay late in bed during mornings you don't want to go to work or you feel you are bone tired to do anything, sleep the whole day away, but, even that is also a choice you have to make whether you'll give in to laze around or do the right thing which is get up and get going. We can't live without choices because everything we do and don't do however small, it is always because we choose which one we'll give in to.
@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
26 Dec 12
haha yeah, of course if we can choose not to work and still live comfortably, who would not want to also have a taste of that kind of life? :D Right?
@deiusz (193)
• Indonesia
25 Dec 12
sometime we have several option to choose and they are all not good option, but we have make one decision to choose them and could be that will changed our live for good. one decision only could changed our life, even from small thing.
@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
26 Dec 12
yes, all decisions made make big changes in our lives. no matter what. at least we aren't treated like we cannot fend for ourselves... we are lucky after all to be able to take charge in our lives.
• Argentina
25 Dec 12
It is as Sartre says "Everything you do and don't do in your life, is your falt. Everything. There is no God, nature or society to blame, everything is your choice and you should bear all consequences" so pretty much, yes. Life-changing decisions are also choices of your own, and should bear the consequences, whether they are positive, or negative.
@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
26 Dec 12
Well yes, we are given the will to do whatever we want to do with our lives... but there is just something about this life that even if we have the power to turn our lives around, i still believe that our lives can be predetermined if we do not work hard to make it different from what was already set.
@allen0187 (58444)
• Philippines
1 Jan 13
hi chiyosan. you can never ever not make a choice, regardless how small or big, you might think will your choice affect you. you have to make a choice. otherwise, someone or something else will make the choice for you. anyway, wouldn't you rather make the choice yourself than have others make it for you? again, the choice is yours.
@surekharathi (14146)
• India
15 Jan 13
I think life gives us full of choices so we are confused which choice we should accept. Whenever goes in shop for purchasing confused while purchasing sari, if in meals various dishes then confused which should eat first, If more than one job getting then confused which job should join...means more choice means more confusion.
• Indonesia
25 Dec 12
Life is full of choices. Since childhood, we've been faced with a variety of options that will determine where our next move. We choose whether to study hard or lazy, if we want to live orderly or messy, obey parents or rebellious, honest or lying, and so on. To adult life choices became increasingly numerous and complex. Are we willing to take the job or keep looking or even choose to laze around, whether we want to help others or continue to dissipate, choosing a life partner, and others. When some people think that the line of his run without options, real people live with so many choices every day. Although most live by force, consciously or not, we can all choose what we want to decide at any time. And every decision will have an impact on our future, could even have an impact on others as well. We need careful consideration for choosing each step as it takes and decide a choice it is often not easy.
@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
25 Dec 12
That's right, choices, its a gift that God gave mankind the gift he gave us that made lucifer jealous, so as the myth said as to why Lucifer became the fallen angel... but sometimes the gift of choice is such a huge weight to bear... it becomes really too much to take and any wrong turn, wrong choice could spell us disasters. =( You are right, no choice we have to make is easy.
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