Your post contains a powerful message for successful living. Choices,choices and choices. Yes, we are always confronted with a multiplicity of choices and what we chose ultimately is going to lead us to success or failure.
Many people take the easy way out where no effort or energy is involved, no risk or adventure is involved, no pains or sweat in involved and they find themselves reaching no where. Most of us including me shudder to take the road less traveled and we don't reap the rich rewards such as adventure, thrill, excitement, and a sense of satisfaction or fulfillment of achieving something against all odds. To speak about myself, I never liked to take risks, never like to get out of my comfort zone. Perhaps everything depends of early life when a person who is provided with all comforts by parents and therefore he or she grows up without having the necessity of taking up challenges.
A person who wants to become a great runner can either skip practice and go to movies or get to the stadium to run and run till he is exhausted. The first choice will lead the person to a dream unfulfilled whereas the second choice will help the man succeed.
Well, take the case of Eve. She had a choice to eat or not to eat the forbidden fruit. But she chose to eat the fruit against God's command and brought damnation on her and all of us.
God has given us a common sense to chose and if we exercise it carefully we find favor with God and HE will shower his blessing on us. He also gave us something called conscience and if we follow our conscience most of the time we will make the right choices.
This is a subject on which we all have our own thoughts and opinions. I hope you will share the same generously with me.
In my life whenever I have tried hard to get something, given it my very best, I have always found that thing eluding me for ever. But on things I do not focus my attention,do not use any skills to get it ,I have found I have got it in abundance. It is strange. Sometimes i feel to get success one should not go running after it , but let things unfold all by them selves. However in this issue, people can choose to think differently,as long as what they think is right works for them,I think it should be fine.
ReplyDeleteHi Joseph,
ReplyDeleteI think you have to experiment and try things to get anywhere.
This is best done as a child so you grow up being able to try out new things.
That is something my parents frowned on and it has made me worried about experiments.
I also think to make choices we need to take resposibility for our actions and our lives.
Love
Herrad
you share some great wisdom joseph...we are given the tools to make wise choices...if we choose, it make life all the sweeter....
ReplyDeleteHello Joseph, life is all about choices, whether each choice is right or wrong it is only the person who is responsible for that choice. We can listen to advice from many different people but at the end of the day the choice is but our own, if it turns out right all the good if not then the onus is on us as long as others say "I told you so"
ReplyDeleteA very good post Joseph and the pictures as usual are a very high standard.
Take care/
Yvonne.
Life poses loads of questions. Some need instant answers and some become a question for a life time, another thing that life does is to give us a ride on its back, so that where ever it flows , we flow with it. Some of us choose our ride and go against the flow, some just flow easy and some find their way while riding on life...it's but time that decides the choices we make, but when we make them, its the mind and heart that guide us.
ReplyDeleteLoved your post Mr. Joseph and the pics are ever beautiful!:)
I enjoying reading what OSHO has to say about choices. These are some lovely photos. Thank you for stopping by Free Wing. I always enjoying hearing a word from you. You bring a little bit of India into my life. Thank you for being a devoted reader.
ReplyDelete"A man of awareness knows that life is constantly changing. Life is change. There is only one thing permanent and that is change. Everything else except change changes. To accept the nature of life, to accept this changing existence, with all its seasons and moods, this constant flow which never stops for a single moment, is to be blissful! Then nobody can disturb your bliss. It is your hankering for permanency that creates trouble for you. You want to live in a life with no change, and that is not possible. You are asking the impossible ..."
OSHO:
Food for thought, Joseph. My parents didn't encourage me to make choices, consequently when I had to choose I often got it wrong. Indecision was a close friend. However, commonsense came as I grew older. Then I was able to sit back and weigh up the pros and cons of each situation. But successes came without any planning, it just evolved. Having a good faith was instrumental in my thinking.. and that was an easy choice to make.
ReplyDeleteYou are right life pretty much depends upon the choices we make, a lot depends on that Mr JP.
ReplyDeleteNamaste........
ReplyDeleteChoices are made in every minute of every day and everyone is involved in the choosing, whether voluntary or involuntary.
For everything, circumstance, situation one must choose and if one exercises their right not to choose they have indeed made a choice. There choice is to not choose and by doing so they have chosen.
Have a blessed week
Yes there are choices galore. We need to exercise what you said common sense with due regard to conscience. Rama has said something differently. A Choice is deemed to be a right one if it works well for the person concerned. With profound regards.
ReplyDeleteWhat a powerful message...Life is full of choices and the one we choose can make a lasting impact in our lives forever. It is easy to make the wrong choice. Gorgeous pictures as always. Have a blessed week.
ReplyDeleteJoe, what an excellent topic. Between two evils, choose neither. Between two goods, choose both.
ReplyDeleteNice reading. Good or bad we must make a choice in life at every step and keep learning and unlearning. We have no other choice!
ReplyDeleteHow nice to re-discover you and your site. Impressed indeed after reading, kept me awake at nearly ten past three in the morning. Please have a great start into the weekend.
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What gorgeous images! We can all only hope to make the right choices!
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