We have a choice...

What affects you the most as a person ? What affects the way you turn out to be ? Primarily, your birth. I do not wish to sound prejudiced here, but your birth determines your family, and the surroundings in which you grow up. The moral, social, financial, educational and geographical situation of your parents and your family has a direct influence on who you turn out to be.

So, the initial you, the formative years, depends on a whole lot of factors that you cannot possibly control...you just flow with the current, and learn to swim. But there comes a point when you have to take a decision. THIS is the point where you can assert the influence of your choice on your life.

The crux of my ramblings is that whatever your background, whatever you are because of it, can be either strenghtened, or rectified, only by you.

I believe that when this realisation hits you, that maybe your destiny is pre-written, but, its not pre-ordained that it will come to you even if you do nothing. What I mean is...God has a plan for each of us. But to discover what that is, and to lead it to its fitting conclusion, is in our hands.

Let us not be so wrapped up in ourselves and in our immediate surroundings that we do not wonder exactly WHAT is it that we are ordained for. Let us try to face every failure, as if its a test that will determine whether you are fit for the better things to come. I have read somewhere, that God gives you only as much failure and as much grief as you can handle. Failure is not the end of the road, it is just a pointer that you were wrong somewhere. Let us take some time out and think how to rectify our mistakes.

Let us excersize our right of making a choice...and let us make the choice to look deep within ourselves. For that is where most of the answers lie. Let us try to make progress at every step. Let us try to find goodness, happiness, success and satisfaction in every situation we are in...and let us try to better our own selves everytime.

For only when we take time out for ourselves and be self-satisfied and self-confident, can we think of contributing something to our family, community, nation and the world. So, I believe, let each one of us focus on ourselves first, make the right choices for our educational, moral, social and financial enhancement, and then only can we make choices for others.