Life comes down to the choices you make. I believe that. I believe everything boils down to simple
choices in the end. No matter how complex
someone says the situation is, it boils down to a simple choice. To choose a political example: the Canadian
military presence in Afghanistan. There
are a lot of conflicting priorities and influences but in the end our decision
as a country is simple: Do we want to support the Afghani people during their
transition to a more egalitarian society or do we want to protect the lives and
safety of our citizens? We can’t do
both. It is a war zone with severe and
imminent risks of bodily harm. In order
to support the Afghani people, we have to be there on the ground, doing what is
necessary. Therefore it comes down to a
simple choice: help or protect. I don’t
pretend to say one is the right decision but they can’t both happen.
On Dr. Phil, there was a man who preferred to live as if he
was an eighteen month old infant. He had
a girlfriend who fed him, bathed him and changed his diapers. (I’ll give you a moment to recover from the
eww factor of that particular revelation.)
I don’t generally like judging other people’s choices but that one was
hard to avoid. She had a hard time
explaining why she was with him and kept falling back on saying it was
complicated. But it’s not
complicated. Either she stays with him
and accepts that she will never have the kind of relationship she hoped for or
she leaves him and deals with being alone.
The choices are simple but the impact is difficult. When people say a choice is complicated, I
think it’s because they know what they should do but don’t really want to do
it. Or they are afraid of the
results. I am sympathetic to that. There are choices that scar your soul and
change your life dramatically. The options might suck, but there's still a choice.
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