Choices in Life

Choices in Life....


      A statement I came up with randomly during a conversation with a close friend. A statement I always ponder upon and thus always get associated with even on days when I am not really thinking about the choices I make in life...." I choose what I want to be, but these choices are hard to make..." 


     Choices in Life.... 


   So let my readers understand me better today than they have ever in the past... 


I choose to be a person who always smiles and keeps people around her happy..


I choose to be a teacher after having acquired the best of Management education and experiencing a wonderful corporate career...


I choose to be a loving daughter, an affectionate sister, a caring friend and a trustworthy human...


   Though I choose to be a lot more than the above stated three statements but for the purpose of making this an interesting read I choose only the above three statements because they are closest to my existence and identity and have a lot to be said about me and my journey of making choices in life...


  Today, I don't know why is this occurring to me again and again and hence I thought I should pen it down on a blog the Choices we make in Life... Not all those choices may be appropriate but they appropriately help us discover, rediscover and come closer to ourselves... 
I am certain some of the choices I made in life were perhaps not appropriate but they made me understand the difference between this world and the Other (however let us keep that for another post) 


  To avoid deviation let us come back to the three statements I stated above:
1. I choose to be a person who always smiles and keeps people around her happy..
Is this choice hard to make?? well, more often than not it is easy to make this choice... When I smile or go an extra mile to keep others happy around me, I feel good and happy myself. It is as if when you give some happiness, you get a hundred back and that is what I experience on most days of my life. However, there are those days when I forget the purpose of humankind and think what is the point of keeping others happy if that is making me sad? and these are the days when I ask myself is my happiness alone while I make someone else sad really worth that happiness... Is it ever worth it to build your castle on someone's broken hut?? and obviously the answer is never worth to do that.. so again as I said this is not an easy choice it seems to be the best one...to smile and keeps others happy..


2. I choose to be a teacher after having acquired the best of Management education and experiencing a wonderful corporate career...
This is the one choice in my life which required courage and determination and obviously may seem to be a hard one. At the age of 23 out from a flourishing management education and wonderful corporate career, the choice to take a career shift and choose to be a teacher did not come easy to me, but came naturally. I can still reminisce the day I decided to shift from a Unit Manager to a Teacher and to pursue further education. It asked for determination and dedication but I am sure it has been worth it.. Today I feel like this is what was meant to be and some choices which seem the hardest are the ones we really appreciate as they truly bring us closer to ourselves. Today, I feel I could have been nothing else but a Teacher. Don't ask me how as I said it came naturally to me.
Somethings we choose in Life and somethings Life chooses for us perhaps. 


3. I choose to be a loving daughter, an affectionate sister, a caring friend and a trustworthy human..
These choices seem a blessing in disguise and I have never struggled with them as they are the blessings of God. It has been easier to be the above, there have just been those days when I have expected a lot from myself and may be due to the high expectations I have had for myself, I have been hurt of not keeping up with them. But then, am only human..


When I think of the above, I tell myself life is all about making choices after all, choice between right and wrong, between sane and insane, between yours and other happiness, between truth and lie and at the end, all we mankind is left with is the repercussions of choices we make in life. 


However in these days I remember the famous quote... 
"even man struggles to be human."