Choice

A choice , to me it seems , shapes our lives. At every moment , we make a choice. To proceed or to halt , to take the easy way or the correct way , to listen to reshammiya or to rehman or to ravi shankar . Choice.

The word ‘choice’ strikes a chord inside , makes me remember The Matrix where Morphius tells Neo , "You take the red pill , you stay in the wonderland and i will show you how deep the rabbithole goes !". A choice between the green and the red pill. Accept the situation or change it.
Choices are often the reflections of our past failures and successes. Our ALU calculates the probability of being ‘correct’ , making the ‘right’ choice, based upon the experiences of past. The experiences needn’t be his own. The choices made by his parents , siblings , friends , people he read and heard about, in the similar or the same situations, affect his judgement.

The word ‘right’ may not mean the same to someone else as it means to me. For some people , some things are more right than others. Again choice comes into the picture. What should i accept? That which everyone has accepted or that which no one has ever seen or stumbled upon ?

The choice to become the smartest man makes a william gates the richest person in the world. The choice to accept the genghis khan philosophy ‘winning is not important , everyone else must loose’ made a lawrence ellison build a multi-billion software empire. It is a choice to take the ring to the mount doom that makes a frodo baggins more than a hobbit. It makes him a hero.
It is a choice to become great that stands by your side when you fail, when you are in despair , when everything seems to come to a halt, to an end. Only the choice you made makes you feel better , stronger, only if you truly believe in what you choose.

This belief comes from the knowledge of the thought-process (if any) behind the decision-making. Was the decision influenced by someone else or was it entirely my own consciousness that made the choice? This has to be known. One must seek the reason behind a particular choice. Why did I do it? Why did i say it? If you dont know, look into yourself. The answer has to be there, nay it is there (AS MY FRIEND SAID :) ). Unless you become aware of your own self , you cannot support or justify the choices you made. There is nothing to regret if you know exactly why you did something the way you did it.

Once this knowledge dawns upon you, its time to make another choice. Should i just ignore this whole choice thing and live my life the way it was or should i go out and prove myself to the world? The choice if asked to make for someone else , is easy. Ideally everyone should become a hero. In reality , few do. That is the reason there is only one Federer or one Jordan. Even if you make a choice like that, you have to stick to it till your death. At every inch of his journey , Lance Armstrong makes a choice. A choice to beat everyone else. Every second , every minute , at each of those moments when he can withdraw , he has a choice to make and he makes it. The yellow jersey symbolizes that choice.

Be it your personal life or professional. Doesn’t make any diffenrence. To believe in something and to go at length to be faithful to that idea is damn exciting. Make a choice and stick to it.