Choice does define one's personality, right? What we choose shows up who/what we truly are. Let us look at a few concrete examples. Early in the morning, we may choose to drink hot water or tea or coffee, with or without sugar. Our choice immediately shows us up, lets know if we are a freakily health conscious person!
The colour we love tells a story about who we are. Blue, for instance, may indicate a brilliant creative personality ripe/rife with imagination and intuition, and with a philosophical bent of mind. Depression, however, is not very far away from such horizons!
If you like/prefer a noisy party to a quiet evening full of music and literature with your doggie at your side, you surely will not be the shallow, showy type, right? For a sojourn, what do you choose? The seaside? The snow capped mountain peaks? See, your choice would reveal your personality!
Classical music or the rap? Katthak or the folk? Bharat Natyam or the Bollywood 'zatkas'? Choose and show who you truly are! Why, what you wear tells a lot about you. The sober, traditional clothes would rarely conceal a jazzy, zany personality underneath.
Choices have consequences, too. Do not you believe me? Well, the educational stream you choose sure does impact your life(-n-its)style, right? So, mistakenly though, people willy nilly choose science and/or commerce, without knowing the magic that Arts is.
In other words, choices often are assumptions, codified in to a paradigm over centuries, right? Why, our very language is such a codified choice. The same loving, kind, intelligent animal is "dog" in English, "chien" in French, "perrito" in Spanish and "Hund" in German. Our Marathi has a special childrenese "bhu bhu", too.
I would hence rather choose to assert that choices are less a right/wrong binary, and more a kline, may be. See, in a multi-disciplinary way, I may love literature, fine arts as well as sciences and management, right? I may love nature more, but society not less, right?
Involved herein would be the issue of excessive relativism which inevitably leads to infinite individualism which can be the breeding ground of anarchy! See how choices craft destinies not only of individuals, but of societies, and nations, too! Hence better always to choose wisely and with a foresight. Haste leads to waste, right?
Pratima@ A choice can be like the railway track at a juncture/junction, or the "road not taken" as Frost would say. Choose a path and choose an itinerary! Sure we can travel the road once over yet again. Hardly matters if the destination is the dream!
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