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Today's
Meditation:
Sometimes,
choices can be a nightmare. Sometimes all of our
possible choices are wonderful, and sometimes all of them
are awful. But one thing I've found in life is that
I can live with my choices very well when they come from
my heart-- when I know that I make them because of what I
honestly feel to be the right thing to do, no matter what
the circumstances. Any time I make a choice, a
mistake is possible-- and that possibility is often what
makes them so difficult-- but even when I do make a
mistake, I'm fine with it if I made the choice due to
listening to my heart rather than listening to the voice
that's out for selfish gain or expediency or that's out to
harm someone else or get revenge.
My
choices must be about who I am as a human being rather
than who I want others to think I am. When I choose
one job over another, I hope that I'm choosing it because
of the contribution that I can make rather than because of
personal gain. I know that it's important to make
enough money not just to live on, but to take vacations on
and to supply my needs and the needs of others, but that
can't be my only criteria when it comes down to choosing.
We
all face choices every day, from the foods that we eat to
the things that we say to the things that we buy and the
friends that we spend time with. It can be very
helpful to come up with a strategy that we can follow for
making them, and the first part of that strategy should be
to ask ourselves, what's the right thing to do
here? If the answer is fuzzy, then we should move on
to other determiners, but if I find a wallet filled with
cash and a driver's license, it's pretty obvious what the
right thing to do is. If I find $500 on the street
with no identification involved, then I need to consider
other choices, always with an eye to what's right, to what
our heart tells us to be the best decision.
Where
to eat, what career to pursue, which socks to wear, where
to live, which brand of toothpaste to buy, whether or not
to marry a particular person-- our lives are full of
choices. It's important that we approach those
choices with some idea of how we're going to make them,
but also with the knowledge that we innately have a good
idea of which choice is the best one-- which choice will
have the most positive effects in our lives and the lives
of the people we love.
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