Life is filled with choices. We are aware that every choice we make will have a consequence, even if we don't know what it is. We use our past experiences as a guide. We prepare for every consequence as they happen, and as a result our lives take shape, even though we are uncertain what the outcome will be. It is the unknown that drives us, our monkey curiosity always exploring and looking to the future. There are times where our past does not help prepare us for what happens, where the future sneaks up behind us. We are taken aback, lose our way, can't focus. We are unprepared for certain consequences, no matter how much we think we have prepared for them. Life becomes jumbled, tumultuous, turbulent, and we long for order, peace and calm.
Life does not return to normal, for we have been changed by the experience, whatever it may be. We adapt, adjust and reconcile ourselves to the new normal. We live, we move along, we spend our time, energy and everything else. We again make choices, cognizant of what we have learned, experienced, survived.
It has been said that we make choices, but in the end our choices make us, that show what we truly are. Let those choices make for a better life.
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