Choices

It's all about choices.  Every second of every minute of every day.  We make choices that affect us and others in profound ways.

For every bad choice I make, it seems that there's thirty people downstream of those choices who make choices based upon my choices that affect others who make choices based upon those choices.

Pretty soon, the whole world erupts in a series of improperly thought through, poorly timed, badly executed choices.

You may think they are specifically individual acts, but we are all connected, and these things affect us all.  Somebody on wall street makes a bad choice.  Another looks at him and says 'well he did it, I want to do it too.' And the cascade ends in a 2nd great depression.

Going from the macro to the minute, the most important person in my life has made a choice that has forever altered our respective courses.  My life can never be the same.  I am altered permanently.

Some would say 'oh come off it.  Altered permanently?  That's a choice!'  Brilliant.  Go to the head of the class - IF you can tell me the basic principles of physics..

Everything in the universe affects everything else in the universe.  It just is.  To say that you can choose whether or not you are affected is to say that you can at any time be an 'island' and 'choose' to be unaffected.

You cant.  Remember how I said we're all connected?  That's like saying that the 2 ball can choose not to move when it's hit by the cue ball.

Today I got hit by the planet Jupiter.  I cannot complain about why the planet Jupiter hit me, I can try to understand why, but it simply is.  I will have no choice but to spin out of my orbit, and be launched thousands of light years off on another course in life.

I only have a choice on how long I will mourn the loss of the path I was on.  Letting go of the thoughts about what was going to be is going to be the hardest part.

But a new journey has begun, whether I like it or not, whether I'm aware of it or not, wherever it takes me- through the asteroid belt, to get pummeled by rocks, or out into deep space, where I won't see another body forever.

And all from a choice.

My advice to all - work on your choices.  Make sure that what you're doing is what you want to do.  You're not the only one who has to live with the result.

And so I mourn the loss of the path I had.  It was SO beautiful.  In it's own way it was perfect.  Goodbye.