Choices

  
     The choices we make in life are what mold us into who we are today. Sometimes we make good choices, sometimes bad. Do we choose to be physically healthy and live a longer life or do as we please and miss out on things because we are not physically able to participate? Do we choose to put our family first and do our best to foster its growth and development or run around chasing lost dreams? How important are our marriages, relationships, friends, or children? Will we fight to support and keep them? Are they worth our time?

    How about priorities? Can you list them in order of importance? What consumes most of your time? Do you want to hang out with loved ones, or spend time with video games, TV, or other electronics? Are you constantly scheming with your friends or trying to get away to drink and smoke?

    Values are also choices. What do you value? Honesty, trust, love, sincerity, respectfulness, and humbleness, are great starting places compared to greed, selfishness, vanity, and snobbishness. As you go through your day others will see you for who you are by what you do. Your children will mirror your actions. Will you be proud of what you see?

    Each choice you make will define and mold your life. If you are not happy with your current living situation or lifestyle, you are mostly to blame. You are also the answer to adjust and fix it to what you would like it to be. Pull yourself up and start showing the world the kind of person you are capable of being. Make choices that are noble and of good character. Find your inner stamina and willpower and continue to move forward toward your goal. You will never get there if you do not try.

    When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.  ~William Hale White