choices and consequences.

CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES

I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and this trial.

Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

A story was once told of a man who believe that his life and destiny in life is attached to the number ‘five(5)’, he was born on march 5,eat five times a day, had five children, rent the fifth house  on the fifth street on the fifth avenue.

He always buy everything in fives and so one day he decided to put all his live savings in to a bet on a horse named cinco(Spanish word for the number 5) in a horse race and at last the horse came out fifth in the race, surprisingly the man blame the number five for his woes. Having a good reflection on the story we will find out that it all boils down to the choices that had been made by a man and not a problem with the number five(5).

Many of us today think and act like the man in the story, always blaming things and people around us for the failure and pain we caused ourselves and never taking time to consider holistically, the choices we made that brought the failure. The other day I decided to stay indoor for the whole day and  had to make an important call but I had no credit on my phone, you should know what the end result will be and it was my choice.

From our wake up time to our bed time, relationship to finances, marriage to careers, all are product of our choices and they will one way or the other had consequence(s) whether positive or negative on the direction our live will go. Many fail an examination and decided not to try again and therefore end up at that level, many suffered heartbreaks from relationship with people and never got over it but what they fail to understand is the fact that they are making a choice and at the end will be haunted by the outcome.

Those good things we enjoy were made possible because certain individual made good choices in the past and the weight now rest on our shoulder to start to make right choices and continue making them because there is always a consequence attached.

Even in the choice of the food we eat, the clothe we wear and the company we keep, all in one way or the other will leave a mark. From obesity and diabetes to rape and imprisonment or bankruptcy, there is always a way to end.

Why should you choose to steal or rob others of their goods in order to survive? Why should you choose to cheat before you can pass?

Why should you choose not to stand up for anything and keep falling for everything and why always choose failure in place of excellence?

All the excuse in the world  will never make up for any problem that arises from choices and the only panacea to it is to take responsibility for those choices, start to make better and positive ones and always be ready to live with the consequence(s).