TOWNSHEND — Our most valuable gift, other than the gift of life itself, is the ability to make choices.
Why are you reading this? It is because you choose to. Have you ever considered what a difference choices have made in your life? Have you ever realized that the choices you make every day determine your every action? Do you realize that everything you do is the result of making a choice?
From your birth until you reach the age when you are allowed to make your own choices, your parents make the choices for you. After that, every choice you make is your choice, limited only by the rules and laws of the place where you live.
Even then, you have the choice of obeying the rules and laws, or choosing not to. You have the choice of believing in a higher power or trusting to your luck.
From the moment you awake in the morning, you must choose what to do first: shower, brush your teeth, shave, put on makeup. Then, you choose what side to start shaving or applying your makeup.
Then, you must choose what to wear for the day. You must choose to have a breakfast or to skip it. If you have breakfast, you must choose what to have and how much to have. If you choose to have coffee, you must choose whether to have cream and sugar, and how much of each.
Then, you must choose what time to leave for work or, if you are not working, what you will do that day.
Suppose you choose to buy a car. You must choose the make of the car and the dealer that sells it. You must choose the model and the color, and how you will pay for it. You must choose what company will insure it.
By now, perhaps, you have begun to realize the importance of your every choice. Your entire life is an exact mirror of the choices you have made.