Conscious Choices
28 March 2026
Everything in our lives is chosen either consciously or unconsciously. All your choices yesterday, last year, ten years ago, have resulted in where you are today, what you do today, what you have around you today. This is hard for many people to swallow. They prefer to see life as fateful, or luckful, and therefore avoid responsibility for their own destiny.
There are many random, uncontrollable and unpredictable events, but our destiny is not defined by these events – it is defined by how we respond to them. And our responsibility – ability to respond – is always in our own hands.
If we respond with desire we will likely be disappointed at some future stage when we do not get what we want. If we respond with expectation we will again, at some stage, be let down. If we respond with annoyance or frustration we only disempower ourselves. Desire, expectation and getting upset are never the best choices. Until you can see this, you will not choose how you live. Life, circumstances and events will likely choose for you!
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I was taught this at school some 75 years ago and it was called FREE WILL. It is very true today as has been for my last 85 years. Why is this not taught today in schools? Perhaps the teachers should be taught it first!!
School education today is totally built on the foundation of desires and expectations, cultivation of good thoughts, moral values are relegated to just merely stickers.
A successful businessman, a person adorned with multiple degrees, a political showman is more respected than a Good Human Being. Teachers are only concerned about their salaries and promotion.
In our times the basic idea of going to school was to learn good things of life and become a wise, learned and intelligent person. And this in turn would enable the person to make a good living in whatever profession is chosen.
The priorities changed, thus the erosion of values and the resultant stressful lives we see all around.