Do we always have a choice in everything we do? Oh wow, another YES or NO situation...
NO: We don't have a choice about being born.
YES: Maybe not, but we can choose to end it.
NO: We can't choose our family.
YES: No, but we can choose to turn our backs on them and live with our friends or to make the best with them.
NO: We can't choose our gender.
YES: We can choose to change it with a sex change.
NO: We can't choose our name.
YES: We can choose to change it.
NO: We can't choose what social class we are born into.
YES: Through hard work, effort and a strong will, we can escape it.
NO: We can't choose our ethnicity.
YES: With the help of an operation, almost all traits of all ethnicities can be eradicated.
NO: Kids can't choose whether they go to school or not ("developed" countries).
YES: They can choose not to go.
NO: Slaves couldn't choose to be free.
YES: They could run away and face the consequences (death).
NO: We can't choose not to die.
YES: Perhaps not, but we can make the best with what we were given and live healthily.
NO: We can't choose the weather.
YES: We can choose to accept that.
NO: We can't choose the life we live.
YES: Through (right) choices, we can live it properly.
You see, we always have a choice even if it leads to our destruction and precipitated death. Even a slave could decide to be free, although his escape may provoke his death. The next question is: Is there a destiny? (OK, this has already been discussed, but oh well...)
If there is, then in fact the choices we DO have, aren't open to take. For example, say you have a job interview. You cannot choose to be picked as an employee, but you can choose not to go. If it's destiny for you to get that job, then you shall be picked. That means the choice of not going to the interview could NOT be taken by you.
Here's an image for a better comprehension:
So basically, the corridor is our life path and the rooms are events. With destiny, the path is chosen, so the rooms all remain locked. The \\ means it cannot be accessed, because it is not our destiny. We have no choices. All the choices we think we have such as "to wear these trousers or this skirt" are in fact not real choices. You might think you chose to wear it, but in fact the trousers had no real chance anyway.
Without destiny:
Here we have many different paths, everything is possible. The Main Event can be reached or not.
Then we have half-destiny. Won't do a pic for this. Some things are destiny, but the way we choose to take to get there is up to us.
If you think about it: every time you meet someone you change their destiny. Well, unless it was destiny to meet them in the first place... Our actions affect people in one way or another, whether it is beneficial or not.
Is there always a good and bad path? For instance: say you just leave your school stuff in the middle of the passage, someone slips on it, breaks their neck, you feel guilty, you commit suicide and lure your family on to destruction and the GOOD path would be: you tidy up and everyone lives happily ever after? Can the consequences of a seemingly good path be worse? Is it even possible to take another path? What does destiny care what colour your socks are?
If anything, I'd say there is a kind of half-destiny: we are destined to be born, it is destiny to meet the people we know, to go certain places, to have children or not, to get married and to die. You see, we have choices and destiny is just a wall, which we can hide our uncertainties and fear behind. We just have to make decisions and even if it turns out we didn't have a choice, what does it matter? Then it's destiny and we can do nothing about it!
Destiny seems like a great way to suppress people: "Oh well, it's destiny that you live in the gutter and I have mounds of gold. Live with it!"
Enough of that! Now comment, you have a choice or maybe even destiny!
1 comment:
Choice choice choice. "You always have a choice", but if you're a good person and want to do the right thing you don't really have a choice.
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