Making Choices

A L O H A, Friend!

"Success is a great deodorant.

It takes away all your past smells."

Elizabeth Taylor

Senior (Kupuna) Day

 at the Hawaii State Capitol in tough budget times.

"Strive not to be a success

but rather to be of value."

Einstein

“If animals play, this is because play is useful in the struggle for survival; because play practices and so perfects the skills needed in adult life”

Susanna Miller  ><}}(°>  ／l、 （ﾟ､ ｡ ７ 　 l、 ~ヽ 　 じしf_, )ノ

If you make your own choices

people will think you unconventional sometimes.

I'm OK with that

because following conventional wisdom of the herd

takes one, in the end,

through the killing chute

for someone else's sausages.

Thing is, most of us want to fit in.

Feeling normal is important to us humans.

Conforming and rebelling

both turn on the axis of conventional wisdom:

reflexively for & against,

yin and yang.

And both bring supportive peer groups.

But dare instead

to simply choose your own actions

as the situation speaks

to your experience

and considerations.

How broad, well lighted, and convenient

is the companionable road

to perdition!

But the most precious gift

from divinity to each of us

(even churches agree)

is individual Free Will.

Freedom to doubt,

freedom to freely choose.

Free will is not mere willfulness.

This is important stuff.

When we freely choose Gratitude

over despair or resignation

we give a gift to the Giver,

the only one in the universe (in fact)

that the Divine does not simply

command into being;

The Gift

that keeps on

Giving.

Thanks for freely visiting here!

Your visits & comments are gifts

             I cannot give myself. Warmly, cloudia