"While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions."
For me and many others I am sure this is one of the earliest lessons I remember learning as a child, but as I get older I start to understand it more and more everyday. I also realize more that some grown adults do not understand it at all! Each day I am presented with dealing with situations that do not have anything to do with my own choices as everyone does but now I have chosen to act in 1 of 3 ways to this. Accept, and let it be, Forget and move on, or completely IGNORE it, if I do not feel it will better my life....... Also... I feel the past is the past and my decisions now will ONLY change the outcome of my future never ask WHAT IF?!
Sometimes people think making things that happened years ago better will somehow make the future better. I think everything happens for a reason but if we are not willing to learn from everything than what is the point to anything?!! Consequences that result do to our choices, good or bad, are usually not always the easiest but they are what we have to deal with for making some of our most IMPORTANT and DIFFICULT choices. I think some people need to realize that others should not suffer along with them for THEIR choices resulting in THEIR bad consequences BUT...THEIR choices do Affect OTHERS!! So my lesson learned through resent life situations and advice to all presented with hard decisions.......
"Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?
- Author, Alfred A. Montaper
