The expectations and restraints of society severely limit a person: Schooling, organized religion, and other social institutions imprison a person’s mind and spirit.”
Adapted from William Blake.
Do All Paths Have Rocks? It is true we are free to make our own choices in life, but choices are often limited to who we want to be, who we want to be with, and who we are. Choices we make always have consequences, well, not all, but at least the consequences immediately.I am from an Indian culture where we are brought up with strict ways of living life, and to consider our culture and society first before making any decisions. I was brought up in Kenya,where my father moved from India for business. I was raised with Kenyans and Indians. I was exposed with different cultures and how to be friendly with everyone. Sometimes I would blame my parents trying to be so strict on the cultural beliefs when they are the ones who brought me up in a different place where the Indian culture is not practiced. I made a choice of falling in love with Patrick who is not from my culture. We met at my previous work place at Autoxpress limited, a tires showroom, and he was one of the business tires dealer. We used to communicate on a daily basis for business purpose as
I was an Executive Sales Representative. As time passed, we started liking each other. He asked me to go out on date with him on February 14, 2012. I wasn’t sure if I should go because I was still confused in my
Having a plethora of choice may appear to promote the freedom of individuals, but when the quantity of choices a person is required to make becomes overloaded, the pressure builds and that “sense of freedom” becomes a sense of entrapment. There are so many choices available that there are going to be both
Having choices can sometime leave a negative result that could affect others. Because of some individuals who could have caused problems for society,or because of strict individuals working for the government, choices are sometimes limited to the privileged. But it can cause problems for individuals who need the ability to make their own choices for their own sake.
Jim Morrison has once said, “The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.” We as human being are free from birth. We are given the ability to choose. This freedom makes us who we are as human being. Each individual make choices and learn through consequences. Through the consequences, we learn and the learning becomes experience. Through experience we slowly shape into who we want to be as human. This is the reason why we as humans are so special. Each individual is unique from others. Each of us has different ethical moral rights and wrong. Each of us has something we like and dislike. Each of us are different. Therefore,
Everyone has choices in life, and these choices are what define us. Sometimes they can affect not only the decision maker, but it can affect others too, whether it is just a few people or it is millions of people. This is why a choice
After all he was a complete stranger. I was fourteen and I felt like my life had been altered without my permission. I saw him once more after this initial meeting. We went to White Castle with my other siblings. As a child I struggled with my weight. I remember not ordering a lot of food. I didn’t want him to think I was fat. I made sure to be polite and engaging. I wanted him to accept me. I wanted him to like me. I talked about school. But I made sure not to brag about my good grades. He asked me about boys and although at the time there was a boy I liked, I didn’t dare tell him that. He laughed at my vague response and said he didn’t want to have to hurt some knucklehead boy. In that moment I felt safe, protected. It felt so good.
I thought I did something wrong. And I thought, ‘Well, maybe by meeting up with him… I was asking for it.'”
Fast forward a couple of months, we were going to my uncle's for dinner, we got there
Although it sounds appealing to make one's own decision freely, it is actually an impractable goal as the society has exerted significant influence and restrictions on individuals and has shaped one's value of what they should do and what they should not do. In today's society, people are more free to make our own choices than we were before, but it is true that we canno indulge our interests at the cost of transgressing the basic rules of the society.
I approached him: he immediately remembered me and we spend next few hours engaged in conversation discovering that we share similar opinions on many issues. Before I could even recover from the initial shock of seeing him again, he asked me to go out for a walk with him the next day. I agreed and that was the beginning of our relationship. He had been divorced for ten years and had made a decision to never marry again. I had normally dated men closer to my age (in one case even younger than me) and would have never contemplated dating (much less marry) somebody 21 years older then me. However, the unlikely happened to both of us. A few months after our first date we got married. Today, five years later, we have two beautiful children and have been living in a long distance marriage for three and a half years.
we have the opportunity to alter few aspects of our lives, even though our freedom and
We talked for about 2 weeks until one night he asked me to be his
Everything you do is a choice. You choose the way you are living today. As we walk on the path of life, we are presented with cross roads and forks. Some are pretty obvious which turn we should take. However, not everything is easy in life. And in the fast pace life we are currently living in right now, we move so fast that we meet many more challenges than before and often, we hastily decide on the choices we make.
It's kind of hysterical in a way because I was trying to "hook him up" with my friend, Tiffany when we met. Tiffany was a gorgeous, wild Colombian that I met at work and became close friends with. We would often (almost every night of the week) go bar hopping. One of our favorite bars to go to was the local bar
I met him in 1999. He was the #2 guy at the largest investment bank in the world. He wanted to invest in my next company. Here’s what he ended up doing:
Carl and I met while I was on vacation in Miami, I was on South Beach grabbing a bite to eat and he happened to be in front of me in the line. We engaged in a little small talk and he offered to buy my food, I politely declined, however, I was not done with the conversation so I asked if he would walk me back to my hotel. He obliged and we talked for an hour before I said goodnight. We exchanged numbers and