One way of lookin at life is that iits a daily series of choices. In fact, that's the healthiest and most venturesome wat I can think og for starting each day. From the time we wake up in the mornin until we go to bed at nite, we re making choices. If we re not, then someone or soemthin else is making them for us. Every human being is capable of making great strides in self development and major achievement. The starting pt for all this is bein aware of our choices n then making the rite ones. And I believe people do make bad choices but not stupid choices. But whatever it is, a choice comes with a result. And until those choices are made, nothign is goin to happen. Look ard u. What is happening in the lives of a large percentage of the ppl in this country? Not much. I dunno if they realize this but every choice can be a result of either gd or bad but not wrong. Like the choice to take what comes, the choice to let things happen, the choice to settle for less, the choice to let others do their thinking and so forth. One of the biggest mistakes ppl make is thinking that life is one big 'have-to'....Even myself sometimes. They always like to bitch abt it.And when I come to think of it..Its a sin for me to do such things. Its an everyday kinda of things that we bitch abt...We have to go to work, have to go to sch, have to attend meetin, have to do projects, have to settle the stores, have to get organised, have to do this do n that etc etc. The truth is that we dont have to do anything. Yes some thiings might be important, and maybe they should get done but no one has to do them. Its always amazes me how strongly ppl will argue when told they do everything by choice. They re so stuck on the "have-to" philosopy of life that its hard for them to let go cuz it has become a habit.Touch ur heart, don't u feel that way too? There was 1 time when my s2, A captain, told me abt choices. So yeah I'm gonna use his theory, take "trainin" for example. You have a trainin on Monday Mornin at 7am and despite ur lack of interest in the program, you still decided to attend instead of seein the doctor juz to malinger. So why come when you dont have any interest at all. This is a choice that u make. You chose to come. And you should also know what are the consequences of not coming. Just like sch, If u did not attend any class, The school will take heavy punishment against u. Its the same to this. This is also abt self discipline as well. And this is what I mean the power of choice. U decide, u choose and know ur responsibility. You chose to come for trainin instead of choosing the consequences of not coming. Get what Im tryin to say? That's exactly what I wanna share with all of u tonite...To look at everyday lives of ur life that way. To see choices instead of "'have-to's". At any point of time, we re free to choose what to think and what to do. We can choose to live in a mansion if u re rich as Bill Gates..or just live in a small apartment even though ure a millionaire. You can drive ard with a Lambrogini and show off or you juz can drive a Hyundai Matrix. Its ur choice. Ur life. U make the call. God gave us a free will. No one can take it away from us. We can alter the course of our lives any time we want, because whatever we do, we do by choice, our choice. We can say we have to do things or tht we r forced to, but the truth is that we do what we choose to do. And knowing ur responsibility as a mature human being. Its a simple yet great discovery. Because once we realize that we do things by choice, we begin to accept greater responsibility n initiative for our own lives n to take more effective control over them. We're the result of our choices. =)