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TOPIC: ISSUE136 - "The absence of choice is a circumstance that is very, very rare."
WORDS: 372--598
TIME: 00:43:26
DATE: 2009-2-6 15:52:14
痛不欲生的一篇issue,写也写不出来,全部简直感觉都是平行论证。
We live in a world that is full of choices: how to dress ourselves, where to live, whom to marry, etc. In such abundance of choices, sometimes we might even get confused in how to choose and the absence of choice seems really a rare circumstance.
Admittedly, in certain circumstances choices are limited either because of the lacking of an air of freedom or some unconquered nature forces. One cannot choose to speak out one's opinion frankly and freely during some conservative era or under the ruling of some dictatorial governments. One cannot choose when to born and dead, whom one's parents are, or whether he is black, white or yellow.
However, the inner thoughts and spirits of human beings cannot be shaped and categorized by those measurable identifications. People can still live a life full of choices they give to themselves.
We can choose to stuck up to our principles, we can choose to use our individual thinking, we can choose to live our own lives and we can design our blueprint of future with all these choices. It is such a vast sea of choices in our daily life that we may even constantly run into a labyrinth with all our hesitation and confusion: which one is better and whether should I take the choice without regretting it in the future? For everything in the universe exists in a delicate balance, every time when we choose one thing, we lose the opportunity to do another thing at the same time and space. Therefore, many people fear to make choices in a mood to avoid responsibilities they bring along with.
There are plenty of choices under many circumstances which people suppose they are absent because they get treated with oblivion and ignorance. Choices always lie everywhere, it all depends on whether we can distinguish them and bravely pick them out from other grey and doom accessories. The secret lies in one's mind. Whether you are courageous enough to face them and acknowledge their existence decide the number of choices you can have. Many ordinary people used to complaint about the unfair of life and all of their bad lucks while those successful ones or the will-be succeed ones focus on their target wholeheartedly. Everyone has his or her time equally, we can choose to spend it on negative thoughts and remain stay in the disastrous situation; or we can choose walking through it, stride straight forward in pursuit of beauty and happiness, casting the shadow of our burden behind us. People make such different choices everyday, and with the accumulation of them, live different lives in the end. It is a choice although many people do not recognize its being.
Even in some special situations which one seems has little choice; an absolute absence of choice still is rare. When one suffers from an accident, to view it in an optimistic or pessimistic way means a lot to oneself. Two famous books, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and How the Steel Was tempered were written by their authors who mentally awareness of their surroundings but physically paralyzed. Those two people chose to confront the harshness of life with a positive attitude and made unique contribution to the world.
To sum up, we can choose to have choices even with dim lights and tangled circumstances. No matter how cruel the lives are, we can choose to believe in that we have the ability to choose, at least to choose dignity and spiritual liberty, for we human beings endowed with the free will from the day we born. |
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