choices
how do we know when we're making the right choices? yesterday was the worst day of my life. or i thought so anyway, until i got to today. and all because of a choice i made. who knows if it will even be the right one? but i have to keep going, day by day, choice by choice, until it all falls into place. and maybe it never will, but i will at least know that i tried.
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To be buddhist about it:
"The question of whether your taking this course is a good thing or a mistake can never be permanently or finally answered, not because you can never get all the relevant information, but because there is no object involved that has the kind of being that could be definitively judged as good or bad and no fixed criteria for making such a judgment and no unchanging judge to make the judgment. There is no 'viewpoint of eternity' from which such questions could be answered or even take on some sort of intelligibility."
the "is this the right choice" question has been plaguing me. The above quote doesn't help either really. but if i figure anything out, i'll tell you! :)
Posted by: The Dirty One | January 20, 2004 06:13 PM
I like to think that we all make "the right choice" with just about everything - because even if things don't turn out the way we'd anticipated, it's all part of the adventure that is life. It doesn't mean I don't have regrets, it just means that I try to turn over my regret coin and look at the good things associated with my choices.
Posted by: shokufeh | January 20, 2004 07:43 PM
now you have me really curious.
Posted by: mahsa | January 21, 2004 10:23 PM
Ditto, Shokufeh and Mahsa.
Posted by: +mojan. | January 22, 2004 08:47 AM
I know how you feel. On a recent trip to Haiti, I I thought to myself, "Why wear protection? Yeah, she's a prostitute, but she's only 14. And how often am I in Haiti!"
Looking back, I wonder if I made the right choice. But I figure, why beat myself up over it? I was out of my mind on meth at the time, so it's not like I knew any better.
Posted by: Anderson Cooper | January 22, 2004 10:58 AM
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Posted by: lacey | January 23, 2004 01:45 PM