I didn’t want to speed, but I was running late so I didn’t
have a choice.
I didn’t want to betray a friendship, but I wanted to sleep
with this guy, so I had no choice.
I didn’t want to break the law, but I wanted money, so there
was no choice.
Sometimes there genuinely isn’t a good choice. If you’re having to choose between two people
and you can only save one of their lives, that’s a bad choice to have to
make. But there is always a choice.
In the movie Dangerous
Minds, Michelle Pfeiffer teaches her class that there is always a
choice. If someone has a gun to your
head, then you can’t choose not to die, but you can choose to die without
screaming.
I don’t like the phrase because it’s a lie people tell
themselves to justify their bad choices.
We soothe ourselves with the lie that there weren’t other options. It closes our minds to the possibilities out
there and the longer we insist on it, the more trapped we become in our own
illusions.
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