Choices and Consequences

There comes a time in the lives of all of us when we are kissed by life itself and destiny’s hands rise to lift us up to itself. The challenge is in being able to sense that this is the time. All the success stories that we hear typically ends with the “rest all is history” or “there was no looking back after that”. You should be able to guess what is that I am hinting at. There have been such instances, such chances that happen to come our way once or more but some choose to turn left some choose to turn right some choose to retreat and some choose to just wait. That makes all the difference. One of my friends used to tell all the time that

“it is all about choices and consequences”. I couldn’t put it any better.

The choices we make leads to very different circumstances that again lead to many choices. In fact if we look back we see that what we are today and what the world around us is that is due to the choices we made. If we roll back the tape so to say and think that had we made a different choice at a particular point in our lives our live and everyone connected with us would have had very different lives that what is now or it could have been same also. We live in our own worlds I mean all the people in this world lives in different worlds only they physically reside in one planet called earth in a remote corner of the milky way in a still more remote corner of the universe. Who knows we might have different universes also!

I promised I would not write anything that I myself could never relate to I mean things like nuclear arms deal with US, cloning etc. So here is my part to it. I always though I had an outside chance to go to some good university like Oxford, Cambridge etc(they are not just good but they are too good I know but I already said an outside chance) and pursue a career in literature or arts. There was a chance during my school days- I was given enough recognition and encouragement to do so but I chose to pursue the road oft traveled. What I am today and what I am doing now is all a fall out of many choices like that. I just hope that I make some more choices and the final outcome be the same.

No one can escape making choices not even the hermit who has renounced the world and lives in the woods. Even not making a choice is a choice in itself so let us make our choices and be ready to face the returns as they are. Let us brace ourselves saying that only I made my choices so I must embrace the consequences hereafter. Every choice is made in the uncaring blind-said Radhakrihnan. So we cannot regret for our choices but we must make our best judgment, we must do our best and be our best self when making these choices and then accept the results as they are. We have the right to choose but not the right to decide what follows, we have the right to present not the future, and we have a right to the war not victory. That is the message of Gita said differently.