Choice
I have a choice in life now. It is fundamental, vast, important now only to me. And it will make a difference.
I can choose to become a leader, and create visions and paths for a future many would love and others despise.
I can also choose the opposite, to retire quietly into a life of retreat, contemplation, and pleasure.
I know I am capable of the first, and that the second is the default, easier, complacency.
Lend your advice, or your coin.
clb
3 Comments on "Choice":
If my vote is worth anything, I say choose to be a leader. I say this regardless of whether I would love or despise your future: if the former, then it would be good to have someone so smart and talented working along the same lines as me; if the latter, then it might turn out that I am wrong.
As I said elsewhere:
"It seems that we are evenly balanced between the two paths, one leading outward to the stars and the other to decline and decay and ultimate failure. It's a heavy responsibility that we bear and it is our duty to ourselves, our descendants and all life to make the right choices. The challenges we face are so ferocious that it will take the leverage of all our talents to shift the future onto its right course... We must live as if our actions were vitally important, for so they are... If we prevail, our victory now, here, in this society and in this age, will be but the opening of a greater struggle that will take us to the ends of time and the limits of complexity in some future as yet unforeseen. If we lose, we lose forever."
Hmm.. Yes the parallel is there, Rich.
Long ago, I chose a path of good as opposed to evil. A strong and powerful, defining moment for me. Deep within my heart and the axioms of my nature, I set upon a course that could have been vastly otherwise.
Now, I face a similar choice. This time the chose though is about where to do the good. Do I do it for myself alone, not the future or you or society. Just me. Have a happy comfy life. Or can I choose to be strong enough a second time to choose, not only good, but also the greater good?
I want the last. I want to do this. And yet... I haven't found the committment fully in my heart. If the world tossed the opp at me, I'd be there in a moment. Currently though I find that I'm not in the path of world-altering situations. If I choose to act for the greater good (really strongly and with life long dedication, make this choice), then I need ot throw myself into this path. Aloow situations to collide and interact with who I am. I need to be forged in experience.
So to the world, our species, and the future. And yes... If I choose this last, then we will meet on the world stage as players, hopefully in harmony.
I don't believe it is a choice. I was reading your earlier post similar to this one on "future". And I thought to myself that I am neither a leader nor a follower but I am a switch. I have recognised myself to be a leader on many occasions but it never occured through a concious choice. I did what i wanted to do and others chose to join me or copy me as the case may be. Then again there have been many times in my life where I really appreciated the actions others were taking and I followed them.
I suppose if you really want to break it down my brain made choices but the choice was never conciously a decision to lead or follow. The decision was always based on doing something that appealed to me, and how i fell into a hierarchy based on that decison was a side-effect if you will.
So don't choose to be a leader or a follower because that is bordering on power games in my mind, and can lead you down dangerous paths but choose to take an acton that you will enjoy and will fulfill you.
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