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Very Few Choices Are Written in Stone and Can’t be Made Anew
Recognizing and acknowledging this is very empowering.
I have long believed that there are three ways to live life.
Let life live you. Mostly live by rote, routine, and habit. Let what happens happen. Overall, you just accept what’s given, that things are a certain way, and you make only a few active, mindful choices for the direction of your life. Overall, however, you just roll with what happens around you.
Curl up in a ball and await death. While this can be literal, it’s largely not. This is choosing to see life as mostly a struggle, almost always challenging, and that there’s little to no point in giving a shit. This can also be applied to anyone more focused on an afterlife than this life and those trying desperately to live in the past of nostalgia (which is seldom how things truly were).
Take life like a bull by the horns and go for a ride. You make choices and decisions and actively work on living life as fully as possible. You seek to drive your life in a given direction to achieve that which you desire.
In my experience. I’ve seen these notions proven time and again. I know people who live predominately within each of these given ways.
