The powerful habit of choice in life
Choosing in every situation, a virtue that allows us to freely chart our destiny.
Everything in our life is based on choices.. Choices can be given for many reasons, some of them are economic, for comfort, for desires or for feelings.
Whatever it is, it becomes an engine to move and move forward, whether we are wrong or not. Sometimes we move along a path that is not the easiest or in the right direction or that we had not thought of at first, but, despite the difficulties, we always find a moment to ask ourselves: How did I get here? How did I end up in this job that I like so much? Who would have told me that I would end up with this person that I had known for a long time?
The decisions we make lead us to where we are today.. However, what is really true and necessary is the movement, the change, the evolution of position, as it happens in chess.
A universe of choices
These choices range from small things, such as what we are going to eat today or what we are going to wear, to more relevant choices such as what we would like to work on, what we want to spend our time with on Sunday afternoons or who we want by our side. At a certain age, there comes a time when you realize what makes you happy and what you want to invest your energies in. and what you want to invest your energies in. As we know, and as many Spanish proverbs say, experiences have to be lived in first person in order to learn them.
As we have been told so many times, throughout our lives we will experience hundreds of new things, pleasant and/or unpleasant but always instructive. Therefore, as sunsets are added to our vital calendar, we acquire knowledge that will be added to our experiential library. Our brain tends to remember positive experiences and to "draw a veil over" those memories or situations that have harmed us for some reason.
Stop and think for a moment about the people around you, whether you are proud of them or not.If you are proud that they are part of your day to day, month to month or year to year. As Carlos Miguel Cortés says so well, forever is not a matter of time but of intensity. There are people who pass through your life for a while and accompany you in thought all your life, on the other hand, people you have in your day to day life that end up fading with the passage of time.
Therefore, you should think about whether the people you currently have in your life are the ones you choose to be there, whether they enrich your experiences, whether they provide you with unforgettable moments, whether they make you be in harmony or, on the contrary, whether when you need them they revolutionize you and make your way of seeing things change for the better.
Choosing to grow as a person
At this point, we can say:
I choose you, to be in my life. I choose you every day deliberately and freely, with no strings attached. I choose you, knowing that nothing is forever (or is it?) and that someday you may not choose me. Simply knowing that you share your time with me because you care about me. I choose you because I feel that I want you to be part of my time and my experiences. I choose you because I think I can be a better person with this choice, with these companies that walk with me through time. That's why I can tell you that the people in my life today are not part of chance, each one of them is there for a reason.
And you, do you make a conscious choice?
(Updated at Apr 13 / 2024)