Crossroads

There is always a point in time when one needs to make a choice. Whether implicit or explicit or whether many options present themselves or not, a choice must always be made. Said choices are not necessarily between two similar things, at times the choice must be made between two very different things. One is sometimes forced to sacrifice something in order to obtain something else. The choices one has are nonetheless innumerable because as it is said every head is a world.
As a child, one always chooses more unconsciously whether to play outside, inside or do homework. But those are vain choices because at that time we are not yet conscious of the choices that truly matter. One’s parents are the ones who make the important choices when one is still young. In such a way, however, one grows into being responsible enough to make one’s own choices. As much as one spends the early years wishing one could choose, when that age is finally reached, it is not so pleasant.
A choice always involves options that one must weight in order to decide which of the options is less worthy. One must decide what is necessary and what is worth relinquishing so as to acquire or conserve the other. The choices that are present in everyone’s lives are of general nature that then fall into specifics depending on the situation such that involve more often than not stability and security in its different variations. It could be medical whether physical or psychological, financial, romantic, or personal such that family and friends could be affected.
Health is indeed the most important factor one has to manage. Whether physical or psychological one must always put health first since as it is well known without good health one cannot really have much else. The problem this choice arises is that one often forgets about psychological health and focuses completely on the physical. Perhaps such is due to the more easily observable poor state of the body, but is should not be an excuse to neglect one’s psychological well being. Both are important in the scheme of a healthy life. One should not choose between one and the other, rather place them in the same category because they are parts of a whole.
Financial matters are always important as well since without financial stability one must sometimes forego other important things. But financial choices are made at an early stage in life when one is not actually conscious of making said choice, at least many people are not. One chooses to stay in school and figure out how to afford such luxury in this selfish world in order to improve one’s condition in the future. One might contrarily choose to abandon school but find another way to be financial stable, which seems to work occasionally. It is not relevant how one achieves financial security so long as it is through a legal way otherwise one faces other important choices of legal consequence.
The choice everyone seems to be constantly facing is a romantic choice that involves the love that already exists in their lives or the lack thereof. Many seem to place this factor of their lives at the top of the list due to fear of loneliness. It is understandable because one is always surrounded by people thus the need to have someone at one’s side for the better part of one’s life, but such does not excuse neglecting other equally or more important factors that seem to suffer at the mercy of whatever this romantic choice results to be.
However, choosing is not as easy as it might seem when the choice is first presented. All the categories involved in acquiring security and stability are intertwined, thus creating a difficulty for the decision making process. Hence the need to consider the secondary effects a choice could have in other aspects of one’s life as well as how said choice could affect one’s family and friends.
Yet, a choice is always personal. Options and opinions can be heard, but the only responsible person for the choice made is the one making it. The rest are only spectators. However significant the choice, one must always choose since it does not make a difference how intensely one tries one cannot have two glories. A choice must be made as to which one is more important because there are not any two things worth the same. It is always one or the other.


xoxo,
Poison Drops


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