The power of choice and decisions.

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The single thing that differentiates us from creatures is our power of reason and choice. The choices we make in our lives can make age long impact on our overall situation at that point in time and may even exceed or go beyond that. The quality of our lives is the sum total of the choices and decisions we make day in day out. Sometimes we make choices that even we ourselves are not sure of them, and then in some cases we come to deeply regret the choices we have made after suffering the consequences or are in the process of suffering them. We wish we had not made the choices we make but what is there in wishful thinking? Absolutely nothing!

One of the skills we would never ever regret cultivating is our power of choice. When you are a 100% sure that the choice you are making is the right thing, you feel at peace and even if things do not turn out to be the way we had anticipated, we are left unperturbed because we knew we did our best.

There is a little story I would like to share with you guys:

There is this child who lived in a town. She was a girl. This girl is a very sensitive person who is fully aware of what is going on around her. She had really intense

There is this little girl who had very mighty feelings and it felt both like a gift and a curse to her. The depth at which she feels things is greater than that of an average human being. When she is hurt, she feels it deeply. When she is in a happy mood, she feels it greatly. It was like of all things with regards to feelings given to humans, hers was tenfold! These feelings where so great that they felt like an independent entity, not under her control but come and go whenever they want, fleeting in such a way that she is happy and chatty this minute, the next minute she is quiet and sad. These made it difficult for people to understand her and some people even thought that she had Multiple Personality Disorder, but it was nothing like that. This affected the decisions she made because she had to view it situation through the spectrum of each of her emotions, some of these emotions accept it while others reject it. Sometimes such situations lives her stranded with no idea as to what to do.

Now, some people say we tend to make better decisions and choices when we view them through the spectrum of reason rather than emotions but I beg to disagree. No matter how devoid of emotions we think our decisions are and think we are doing it purely from "reason", there is always a taint of emotion on it, because we have to protect ourselves, and our emotions are always at the defense to ensure that.

.....knowing quite well that it is hard to find someone who understands her, she started striving for Unity, Unity that comes when when you look at different things from different spectra, you see both the same thing, and at the same you see differences. They are the same, yet they are different. She realises that when one attains the height of Unity, there is that Oneness she wanted to attain to unify all those parts of her being. She realises that is the only way she can find true happiness and she is stilll on that path, knowing fully well that one day, she will attain it...

Hey you reading this, have you attained that Oneness yet? While riding in a canoe on a sea of emotions, have you ever tried becoming one with the Sea, 0ne with the Canoe, and 0ne with everything else in between? This is the choice that we all have to make in 0rder to learn secrets that can only be learnt in this state. Only then we acquire real invincibility over our choices, decisions....our life. That is the time we become nothing, and nothingness is the greatest beauty you can achieve in life..

Thanks for reading my little piece. I hope you enjoyed it.

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Yours Layly,

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One should be at one with oneself

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Correct!!

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When it comes to making decisions, the onus doesn't just fall on reason or emotion alone, we need a little bit of both to make the right decisions. While using your head to make a decision, also involve your heart so that you wouldn't come off as a dictator who only listens to reasons and doesn't care what effect the decision will have on other people

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All faculties of our being are needed to make the best decisions. I agree with you on this.

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Every day we need to decide, every day we have our choice and every choice has its emotions, a human nature, a cycle that everyone most hated, but life goes on with those three, as long as we can move aside our emotions we need to go

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We need to see being them at the same time not totally ignoring the emotions. They send us messages we need to listen to.

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Emotions are powerful but they should not have total control over our choices.

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That's right. They are powerful but don't let them rule.

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Its really a great and admiration skill to be able to make the right choice at the right moments. This can only be achieved when we learn from past experience, experiences of others and how the world around us change every day

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That's right bilqees.

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I agree with you, our life is mainly composed of choices and decisions, whether its to eat or not, to shower or not, to go to work or not, to love or not, its all based on a decision and a choice. We often make choices that turn out to work wonderfully for us, sometimes its not so and we end up feeling disappointed and regretful when a decision yields bad results, we can't but find a way to work through it and walk forward. Emotions and reason are necessary in making those choices and decisions, its finding a way to balance them out when we want to decide and choose.

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Life needs balance. The more we lean to maintain that balance the more quality our life has.

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