"Choice is the only thing we're given."


That is a line from the following song. It has stuck out to me every time I have listened to this song lately.

I really do believe that the only thing we are given in life is our ability to make our own decisions, our choices. No matter what we are given in life or lack of it, we will always have the ability to make our own choices. Even our own dreams and goals are made from choices we have made. And those are things that no one can take away from us.

They can also be affecting in positive and negative ways. One choice to reach out to a stuggling friend can be very positive. Choosing to look the other way when someone obviously needs help would not. Our choices affect our future. There are some things in life that we cannot control. But we always have to option to choose how we deal with the situations we are given. Our choices we make today help decide our tomorrow, our future years.


What choices are you making?

-positive or negative? lasting or forgotten?

Broken from the Start by Jon Foreman
Life is a gift like fresh cut roses
Cut from the branch and brought inside
It’s a slow contradiction that’s beauty in a vase
When the cords are cut that’s when we start to die

Lately death and life get so confusing
I can’t tell the difference here tonight
Lately every breath feels like I’m kissing death
And when time is dead I cease to be alive

If you hide yourself deep inside, deep inside
In time you’ve got nothing left to hide
There’s nothing left inside
Tonight, honey I am gonna break your heart
Mine was broken from the start, broken from the start

Choice is the only thing we’re given
For one will live, another dies
One road says hello the other says goodbye
And the roads that you don’t choose begin to die

They won’t pay a cent to hear you laughing
They might pay a little to hear you cry
If you do it long enough they might even pay attention
But they still won’t pay respect until you die