Choice, Lessons and Ignorance

We live and we learn. We face all sorts of trials and tribulations and come out having gained some sort of insight. We learn that all our actions have consequences and we always have a choice. The things we do, the people we allow in to our lives and the way we treat others are all a choice.

We can either love or hate, interact or be indifferent. Whatever we chose, regardless of the outcome, is something we have to live with. Sometimes we don't realise the negative impact of our choices and continue on with them. We live in disillusion, telling ourselves that we have no idea why we are doing things or that they just played out in a certain way. The truth of the matter however, is that we allowed it to happen as such. We could have done otherwise, chosen a different route, but instead we followed the path and didn't differ.

The sad thing is, when the proverbial shit hits the fan we have no one else to blame but ourselves. We made that choice. We determined the end result and just as a hypertensive who doesn't exercise ends up in hospital, so too do we end up hurting. What we do today will determine how we will feel tomorrow or sometime in the distant future.

It hurts more when our choices result in the loss of something dear to us. We don't even realise it but all the imperceptible little actions that govern our daily behaviour is nothing short of our destruction. We do these things without thinking and therein rests our downfall. We don't think beyond the moment or action. It that small space of time within which we make that irrevocable mistake we forget to think beyond. We forget the importance of projecting into the future and so that action results in the loss of what once mattered.

Again we have no one to blame but ourselves. Yet, instead of accepting responsibility for our actions we seek to lay the blame whichever way we can. We blame timing, fate and other people. What we fail to see is that we are the unalterable reason. No one else is responsible for you but you. Should you lose a person whom you care for dearly, it will be through your actions or failure thereof.

Like I've mentioned before, life will continue to teach us the same lesson continually until we learn it. Until we learn to accept responsibility for the choices we make, we will continue making the wrong ones believing we aren't doing anything wrong. I mean, why stop when you don't see anything wrong in it? It amazes me how inapt we are in realising the errors in our ways. We fail continually to see how our actions hurt others.

We live in nothing short of ignorance. While ignorance may be bliss for the oblivious, it can be our greatest curse. It can result in the demise of all things meaningful.

It can destroy us.