Well currently I should be working because I’m slightly behind on work for this bi-week, but there are a few things that I’ve had on my mind for a while that I have been “marinating” about…
Lately I’ve been really thinking about phrases like…”Everything happens for a reason”, “It was mean to be”, “God put me in this position for a reason”, etc… I’m not sure if I agree with any of these statements. Let me explain.
So first, agreeing with the statements above imply that we have no control over our actions or no matter what we do the “same” things will happen regardless. So if I choose to speed and I get a ticket for speeding, I guess it was “meant to be”. Um no, I could have chosen not to speed and I wouldn’t have gotten the ticket. Obviously, I understand what the repercussions of speeding can be. Yet I chose to ignore them. We choose to do many things, or not do things, and all of these things affect us (and sometimes others) in many ways. It’s our choice and our decision to do or not to do things in our life, right??? If I hadn’t chosen to go to school and get a degree in engineering, I wouldn’t have the job I have today. So this job wasn’t meant to be. I made the choices necessary to be able to have the opportunity to get this job and this job has provided me with many other opportunities that I wouldn’t have had if I didn’t choose to attend MSU. I could have easily decided to not go to school and have a lower paying job, or even pursue a different career entirely, and then I would have been faced with many different choices to make…
Life is about the choices that we make, good and bad, right and wrong, or indifferent…but they are still our choices. I am in the position today because of ALL the decision that I have made in my life. These choices have played a role in me being who I am today. I have learned from all the decisions I have made, and I will continue to learn from the decision that I make in the future.
posted at fk3.blogspot.com
