Things Have A Way...

 

Hi!

Having been on the planet for a while now, I've made some observations, as we all have. 

Choices.

Life is simply the results of choices made, strung together. Now, some results come more quickly than others, so they don't run in the same order as the choices that brought them about. 

For instance, let's say you choose to eat fast food every day. The results of that choice won't rear up right away, but will begin to show over time. It might take a month a year, maybe even a few years, depending on your gene pool, but results will eventually come to light. Now, let's say, you are driving in traffic and get pissed at another driver, you then choose to get out of your car to yell at them, and get punched square in the mouth. The resulting bloody lip is pretty instantaneous. 

Two different choices, timeline of results, vastly different.

In my experience, there are basically two types of choices, proactive, and reactive. 

Now, if I were to hazard a guess, I would bet the vast majority of choices are reactive.

They may be reactive in the moment, or a reflex reaction from past experiences. 

I would think that if we would sit down and really analyze the bigger choices we've made in life, we'd find that even the ones we thought were proactive, were tethered to the past. 

Every choice, every experience, they all have a purpose.

Every choice made, and every result birthed from it. Purpose.

Things have a way of working out... usually for the better.

You find yourself feeling like nothing is going right, struggling to find any tunnel, let alone the light that supposed to be at its end. Then, when you think that the end of the stick you're carrying couldn't possibly get any shittier, one small, good thing happens. Then, in time, another. The entrance of the tunnel finally comes into view.

The results of your choices, good, bad, proactive, reactive, the bouncing, jolting timeline of all of it brought you here, where your path seems clearer. At least for now.

Choices both knowingly and unknowingly made reactively, are still ours to own. If we want to take credit for the good ones, we have to own the not-so-good, as well. 

Even if they are but a reflex, they are choices, all the same.

If you were fed only fast food as a child, you grow, you learn, and choose better.

If you were witness to erratic, violent behavior growing up, you grow you learn, and choose better.

I know I'm simplifying things a bunch, as life is complicated and messy on its best day, but you get what I mean.

Okay, now let's say you were a boy, born into wealth, and every privilege life can offer. Your parents allowed you to become allergic to the word no, treating you as though the world and everyone in it had the sole purpose of bowing to your every whim.

Now, let's say this boy never grows and never learns, so every choice he ever makes is to only feed the bottomless pit of need and greed that encompasses his entire being. He treats humans as playthings, 'friends' with only those who are loyal and blindly feed his wants. If they question, if they defy, they are thrown away like last week's leftovers. Banished from the kingdom.

Now let's say this man buddy's up with another much like him. They team up to devour young girls, destroying their lives without the tiniest of thought. They prey upon the vulnerable for decades. Seemingly untouchable.

Until they weren't.

One goes to prison, And dies there.

The other, becomes President.

He scrambles now, as those who have worshipped him are starting to see the grotesque monster that slithers behind the curtain. They want the answers that have been promised for years from the mouths of his henchman. They want answers, they demand answers, they deserve answers. 

Choices always produce results. Sometimes they take time... days, weeks, months, years... even decades.

Time passes. Eventually it runs out, and results show themselves whether you are ready or not.

Tick. Tick. Tick.

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Oh, and by the way, when I said things tend to work out for the better, I meant for people who aren't horrible humans. Just thought I'd clarify.