Life's Choices

I came across this Blog written in 1907 for a good friend in Multiply (S.O.) I am re-posting it, this time, for all my friends near or far ...

Many of us must have at one time or another imagined what our life would have been like, had we chosen a different direction this or that way, when we first set out on our life's journey as an adult, instead of the one we had taken.

I believe this doesn't just happen to people who are not happy or content with their spouse, partner, job, career, or how life had generally turned out. Those who are blessed with a satisfactory life too think about it I am sure, as a way to reconfirm a decision well made, by wisdom, impulse or based on calculated risk. Or the ones who had at times thought of making a major life change but had decided, for better or worse, not to, for which they now have proven reason to congratulate themselves for their own foresight and decisiveness.

What about all those twist and turns, crossed roads, fork junctions, temptations and disastrous traps dotted along the path of life? Each and everyone of them need our decisions to follow or avoid. Have we made the right choices? The answers, alas, take time to show. Years or even a whole life time. When they do, you laugh or cry, but in either case your destiny is set ...

Until you go ahead, and make yet another choice. There are always choices even though they might not be obvious. 

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