Ahwatukee Foothills Newspaper
March 30, 2009
Each day we are all forced to make choices. Should I eat yogurt for breakfast or scrambled eggs? Should I take the freeway to work or the streets? Should I do my homework or watch a movie instead?
We may not realize it but we make choices everyday on a regular basis whether we realize we do or not. For the most part we make small minimal choices that may or may not have little impact or consequences on how our lives turn out, but what about those really big choices we have to make that will affect us later on?
There are going to be a lot of big choices that we have to make in life that will eventually create the path we will take for our lives. This path or journey that we all travel on will one day be a thing in the past that we will look back on one day as we are reviewing our lives and the choices we have made to get us to where we will be one day. Some will review and be happy while others may look back and regret.
The problem with regretting is we cannot take back certain things we have done that we may not be proud of or happy with the end result. However, some people use that as an excuse to not make amends for their past that they may have created.
All the decisions we make not only impact our lives but the lives of others around us. For example, if someone drinks and then drives and then gets in an accident, the consequences are not just impacting themselves but the other people that they caused an accident with.
Lives collide for a reason and we may never really understand what that reason may be. Whether it's to teach a total stranger a lesson or perhaps even save someone, paths cross for a reason. Wouldn't it be best if when making decisions we take more time to consider all the lives involved besides just thinking about how it would impact ourselves?
There is a saying that Theodore Roosevelt once said, "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."
We always seem to think that what we have is not good enough and so we make choices to lose what we currently have only to realize later that we had it all, and by making the choice we made we lost everything that we had that was true. We also seem to have good intentions to always try and do the right thing but since we are all only human it does not always work out that way. In that case are we moral enough to admit to another human being our faults or our apologies for the consequences of our actions that may have affected someone else?
Or are we too afraid and just never admit that we were wrong because we have too much pride?
If you have ever hurt anyone's feelings why not apologize? When making decisions why not try and make the right decision instead of doing what is popular? Why not make good decisions in your life and consider others lives around you so that one day when you look back you will never have regrets?
It takes character, strength and humility to admit that you may have faltered in a decision you may have made, but we are all human and we should all try and be there for each other.
Lives cross paths for a reason. Don't regret the reason but be thankful that the paths crossed.
March 30, 2009
Each day we are all forced to make choices. Should I eat yogurt for breakfast or scrambled eggs? Should I take the freeway to work or the streets? Should I do my homework or watch a movie instead?
We may not realize it but we make choices everyday on a regular basis whether we realize we do or not. For the most part we make small minimal choices that may or may not have little impact or consequences on how our lives turn out, but what about those really big choices we have to make that will affect us later on?
There are going to be a lot of big choices that we have to make in life that will eventually create the path we will take for our lives. This path or journey that we all travel on will one day be a thing in the past that we will look back on one day as we are reviewing our lives and the choices we have made to get us to where we will be one day. Some will review and be happy while others may look back and regret.
The problem with regretting is we cannot take back certain things we have done that we may not be proud of or happy with the end result. However, some people use that as an excuse to not make amends for their past that they may have created.
All the decisions we make not only impact our lives but the lives of others around us. For example, if someone drinks and then drives and then gets in an accident, the consequences are not just impacting themselves but the other people that they caused an accident with.
Lives collide for a reason and we may never really understand what that reason may be. Whether it's to teach a total stranger a lesson or perhaps even save someone, paths cross for a reason. Wouldn't it be best if when making decisions we take more time to consider all the lives involved besides just thinking about how it would impact ourselves?
There is a saying that Theodore Roosevelt once said, "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."
We always seem to think that what we have is not good enough and so we make choices to lose what we currently have only to realize later that we had it all, and by making the choice we made we lost everything that we had that was true. We also seem to have good intentions to always try and do the right thing but since we are all only human it does not always work out that way. In that case are we moral enough to admit to another human being our faults or our apologies for the consequences of our actions that may have affected someone else?
Or are we too afraid and just never admit that we were wrong because we have too much pride?
If you have ever hurt anyone's feelings why not apologize? When making decisions why not try and make the right decision instead of doing what is popular? Why not make good decisions in your life and consider others lives around you so that one day when you look back you will never have regrets?
It takes character, strength and humility to admit that you may have faltered in a decision you may have made, but we are all human and we should all try and be there for each other.
Lives cross paths for a reason. Don't regret the reason but be thankful that the paths crossed.
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