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You Can Choose Your Own Life
Choosing and deciding is how you have any control at all.
Unless you’ve been asleep for years, or locked away in a cave, or hiding out on a tropical island somewhere, you know shit has gotten weirder. Reason and logic seem to be increasingly out to lunch. Greed, ambition, and screwing over others to advance yourself seem to be all the rage.
Many, many people feel as if they are being wronged by “others”. There’s a great deal of false narratives claiming that “those people” are why certain ways of life are dying out, why certain types of jobs are fading away, and all sorts of other societal matters causing people distress both real and imagined.
It is incredibly disturbing, distracting, and uncomfortable. Absolutely unnecessary divisions are being torn wider and wider apart, usually by people who profit from false conflict and competition. Why not orchestrate it when it’s not naturally occurring?
It’s easy to feel lost, sad, scared, uncertain, angry, hopeless, and the like. A whole lot of unnecessary suffering might be on the way, and there is little to nothing most of us can do about it.
Yet no matter what’s going on in the world outside of you, you can choose your own life. Who, what, where, how, and why you are can be chosen by you.
