Our World Revisited: Choice vs Reaction: Living on Purpose!

                                                           Choices and reactions both come after an experience or an action. They can both be either good or bad, well thought out or spur of the moment, cautious or frantic, and they both lead to consequences that are either direct or indirect. However, there is a defining difference between a choice and a reaction. No matter what happens or what we do in life we can choose to make purpose from it, to make it count for something, and make flowers grow from a lump of dying earth. Any situation has the potential for greatness and this is a choice. Or you can just react. Its quite easier than choosing obviously. A reaction is a direct product of an experience or an action. Bad experience? Bad reaction. Good experience? Good reaction. Living your life as a choice gives you power. Living your life as a reaction relinquishes that power. Is it better to choose what you want to happen in your life or have your life handed to you by circumstance?
                                             As long as we are alive on this planet things will happen. We will experience so many things in one lifetime than we can possibly keep track of. Consequences, influences, emotions, agreements, disagreements, understandings, and misunderstandings will all occur in the life of a human being. So how can you possibly live reactively? All these things come in good or bad terms but with to react to them is senseless suicide. So one day you're up and one day you're down? One day you're happy to be alive and the next day you want to die? How is it possible to live this way? You are not living but rather you are existing. For people who live as a reaction, life is not theirs. It belongs to their feelings, their emotions, their fears and their worries. The person living as a reaction is dangerous to anyone and everyone they come in contact with. They're even a danger to themselves. You may be thinking the same thing about choice, just because someone has the choice to be proactive doesn't mean they will. You're right. There are wise and unwise choices in life yet living reactively eliminates the good along with the bad. It eliminates choices period, leaving you to live a double sided life because the real you is trapped inside your circumstances. Maybe you want to be happy. Who wouldn't choose happiness over fear? So whats stopping you? Choose to live your life and stop merely reacting to your existence. -OMJ                            

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