This choice thing is a dicey topic....and i have in the past discussed it to death with many of my friends and i want to voice my thoughts and share my confusions
Choice - at your ability to make one at all times - almost means your in control of your life....
I don't agree with that much...you don't get to decide where you're born, who ur born to, where you grow up, which school you go to etc. etc. but these things do shape the way you are. I seriously believe we share a relationship with the world...you exist in the world, and the world exists because of you...so the world has an influence on you and you also have some amount of control on who you are and what your life is like...and these proportions vary too...there are times you influence your life more than other things in the world and vice versa....but keeping everything in control...I don't agree there is aaaalways a choice you make...
Having said this...if you blindly choose to fall into a pit...Yes, you have made a choice...
But if you were physically forced to jump into the fire...you resisted, you didn't want to fall..but you were pushed...
If one argues that one could gather that extreme bout of strength and oppose vigorously at the moment...and resist falling into the fire...then I would have to say...It's a miracle..in which case...I don't think choices exist at all...I mean, are miracles choices? I don't think so...because miracles are not controlled, choices are!
So your life is a combination of things you do, consequences of those things, things that happen to you, your reaction and the consequences to that...yes, there is an amount of choice you can exercise...but there is always hope for miracles and good and evil to happen, which is not entirely in your control!
I am going to take an extreme example to prove a point...In man's search for meaning, Viktor Frankyl says that when the jews were in the conc camps, a very few of them attained spiritual oneness and had risen above their daily mundane sufferings and were happy...so yes, there too, they had a spiritual choice...My point is then....why make any other choice...when you always have a spiritual choice to be happy?
Don't you think sometimes choice is a magic word we use for accepting our state of life...so that we are happier...acceptance always gives happiness..in which case choice could be an illusion?? a justification for where you are and who you are...if choice is a tool for acceptance...then its only a tool...like god is an easy tool for faith and manifestation??
Just pondering more ....
Don't you feel sometimes...there are redundant choices...? choices that are of no use at all...cos the choices available are not the choices you want at all??
Don't you also feel...sometimes there are disproportionately very huge prices to pay for any choice you make...unlike when you have to decide on a dish from a menu card..which is an easy choice
so when you are stuck with a difficult choice (dad dying, or you being unhappy) and you don't want to choose either, the price to pay is too high but are forced to...then isn't the force inducing a choice..in which case, the whole point of making the choice is lost, cos your being forced to pick between 2 things you don't want??? you might say tough luck baby, that's life for you...then yes, its life...but then choices are not the nicest solution providers and i rather hope for a miracle!
All said and done! I do believe there are loads of times when we can make choices, and think we are in control of our lives and must be accountable for it...but there are many nuances to 'choice' as such, and i just wanted to explore those, for sake of argument
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