Right now, there are a billion things you could do. Including choosing not to act, which is itself an act.
You will choose X, while someone else would choose Y or Z. What drove you is not all that important: curiosity, experience, upbringing, trauma, genetics, or instinct. What matters is that the choice expresses who you are.
And even more so the long chain of choices made over many years. Eventually, they begin to form a unique pattern. Someone else may not like it. You may not like it yourself. Yet there is not another one exactly like it anywhere in the world.
Inevitably, the question arises: “What for?”
Some people find it easier to convince themselves that everything in their lives, and in the cosmos, happens entirely by chance. That too is a choice.
But how many times have you understood the true meaning of something not immediately, but years later? And how often has that realization surprised you to your core?
At the University of Life, one student learns while another sleeps. The difference lies in how they relate to the material: “This is valuable, even if I do not yet understand it,” versus “You must be kidding me!”
The historian of religions Mircea Eliade described an Indonesian myth:
In the beginning, when the sky hung close to the earth, God lowered his gifts on a rope to the first human couple. One day he sent them a stone — but the bewildered ancestors refused it. A few days later, God lowered the rope again, this time with a banana, which they accepted without hesitation. Then they heard the voice of the Creator: "Since you chose the banana, your life will be like the life of this fruit. Had you chosen the stone, your life would have been like the existence of stone — eternal and immortal."
Sincerely yours,
-Alexander
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