issue136[感觉挺难,写的比较辛苦]

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Since making choices exists everywhere all through one’s life that many people believed making choices is more of a subjective issue which is completely determined by one's interests and tastes. But more often then not, people feel like they are being caught in a situation where they have no control. This is the so called "absence of choice". However, I would insist that making choice is only the superficial scenario, the key factor lies in one's attitude towards life. Just like the old saying goes: "everything was set by one's attitude"

Admittedly, before modern society arrived, people are kept under the dark where their destiny is actually set by others. However, in the democratic society of today, making choices is an inevitable issue, since society provides numerable opportunities for people to choose from. A case in point is the involvement of societies. As we know, in a feudal society, the emperor was the supreme dictator, and everyone was confined to his/her status determined by hierarchy. Impecunious peasants, the majority of society, had no choice but to work arduously; while aristocrats, the minority of society, took the privileges and wantonly did whatever they like. The situation changed as society involves into an open and democratic one. Laws and regulations were stipulated and enacted as a result of democratic social reform. Like what we have witnessed these decades, every one of us has an equal opportunity to present our versatilities, to compete in a test, for the job and position that we desired to obtain. Thus everyone can choose to learn in order to be a doctor, a teacher, a soldier, or even a politic etc. In this point, we are living in the sea of choices within the society.

However, we should discriminate between "no choices" and "absent of choice". Faraway from our instinctive impression that we have no choice at all, the fact is that, such choices can not meet our criteria and bear an assumed result from what we expected. Exhausted by our internal request, we are actually deprived of the possibility to some inferior choices.  Almost true forever is the abnormal phenomenon that the one who get the highest education is not the one who can enjoy the most choices. The higher education we receive, the more decent job we desire to obtain. For instance, when we are still children, we can dream to participate in all kinds of occupations, ironically, when we graduate from the university we will find we can do nothing but to engaged in our own major that we choose previously which can hardly coincide with our childish dreams. So this phenomenon of "absence of choice" is not due to the scarce alternatives but the punctilio of thinking. “Absent of choice” sometimes is inevitable because this is just part of our life, and we can not always expected to work out the best solution.

But at the mean time, that does not mean we can always find the easy way out. As the old fable goes:" a fool miss the chance, a wise man grasp the chance, and for the genius, they create chances".  So when we are standing at the cross road, at least we should be a wise man. To be a wise man calls for courage, cause we not only have to face dazzling amount of information, presumptions and data but also have to compare,  to analyze, and finally to refine these complex knowledge and information into opinion and principles. And this process of critical thinking can be beneficial to most of us, it imbuing us with keenness and enthusiasm and getting rid of us laziness and self-righteousness.

For life is a paradox: it provides various of possibilities and temptations for us to choose from but it seldom allow us to select all of them. However, keeping a positive attitude towards life might be a decisive step out of this dilemma, cause what we can do is set by our environment and background, but what we actually do is largely determined by our attitude.