Published on February 10, 2025

Realize that you have choices

The Awakening

Realize that everything you do is of your own choosing. You are not a victim. Neither a victim of nature or your fellow men. You get to choose how you experience life. You might lie to your self that you had no choice but you did. They might have been uncomfortable, difficult - almost impossible, or downright shitty choices but had choices.

Do the difficult job of internalizing the fact that you have choices. Yes, life is tough! Of course people are mean, and things do not go as desired or planned. But you can not escape from the truth that you always have choices.

Some excerpts from Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning”

…everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. And there were always choices to make. Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to rob you of your very self, your inner freedom; which determined whether or not you would become the plaything of circumstance, renouncing freedom and dignity to become molded into the form of the typical inmate.

…may remain brave, dignified and unselfish. Or in the bitter fight for self-preservation he may forget his human dignity and become no more than an animal.