Ever tried stopping to look back at the past few years of your life and wonder why at that particular point in time did you make that particular decision? Or as the current living standards and styles go, perhaps I shall have to rephrase my question to "Ever had the time to slow down and stop for even that minute or second to do the above mentioned?" To tell the truth, I never did have the chance to do so until the last few months of total break that is still ongoing now. And,there have been many of such cases whereby looking back now, I would always think to myself, if I had the perspective I have now at the time, maybe I would have made a different decision, or then again would I?
Life, according to the limited perspective that I posses now is one weird teacher. A teacher that teaches through trial and error, a teacher that throws you only questions with Choice A or Choice B and asks for an answer without ever telling you which is right or wrong, in fact I really doubt this teacher actually has a supposedly correct answer for the questions it churns out. And yet, believe it or not, its always through all these multuple choice questions that we best learn, that we best discover what lies ahead of us and whether we make a right or wrong choice we still get to move on to the next question. Sounds familiar? Yep, isn't this the way things goes in this one kind of storybook we used to play with when we were young and we get to make a choice on behalf of the character every few pages and every answer lead to a different questions and there are many kinds of ending to that one story according to our choices.
In fact, if we really think about it, our life is just that kind of storybook that gets acted out in real life and us being the character and the only difference is that unlike the story we can't go oh, I don't like this choice after all, let's redo it over again. And perhaps this difference is the way to live our life, make every single choice with the point in mind that there would be no way for regret and going back again. And the key to making every choice might just be as simple and cliche as to follow your heart and go through it without any slighest grumble and looking back and sighing.
Think, if we think our lives are hard to lead, are we just complicating the simplest matters because if I did not remember wrongly, we all did pretty well when we were playing with the "Choose your own ending" storybooks even at the age of 10 so why now at age 19 or more, we lost even the most innate ability to make a choice just as your heart tells you to?
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