Boundless Life
Every now and then life throws us into this abyss. But it isn’t an endless black chamber without escape. It has openings, just not one but many. And you have to choose. We are constantly given choices, small, large, significant, insignificant; we go through the umpteenth amount of choices on daily basis. But then they come with conditions too. Although you can’t choose both, you cannot be at two places in same time. They say your choices make the real you. Maybe they’re right. Or maybe they are not. Either way, there is no way you can find out. But have you ever thought what would it be if you didn’t meet this person and instead had chosen to meet that person? What would life be if you had taken that path instead of the one that led you where you are now? It’s a pleasant thought. Isn’t it? But that train of thought comes with its own risks. The more you think about it the more that thought possesses you and, the firmer it grips you the farther in past you find yourself pushed. An abyss that’s comforting but isn’t the abyss supposed to be dark and scary? They are. In fact, the happy thought about the choices we made is a fraud that takes away our today’s, eats up our present for a past that we cannot change. We are here. The choices, whatever they were, we’ve made them and they’ve brought us here. However hard it may sound to some, there is no escape from today. At this moment, like now, we have to choose again, what would it be? A pleasant past to get yourself lost in, the one you cannot change but only brood about or an uncertain future with limitless possibilities, one that you’ll own and can change? I for one, choose the later. What about you, my old friend?
