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"The absence of choice is a circumstance that is very, very rare."

I fundamentally agree with the claim that the absence of choice is a circumstance that is very, very rare, especially in the current society. Although most people often say that "I have no choice". Actually, the choice always lies here and waiting for people to choose. People sometime confuse the two concepts that "the choice" and "the choice I hope", which mislead people to feel the absence of choice.

At first, different people have the different life in the world. What result in the difference between people? It is the choice. To some extent, life is made up with the choices. At the same time, what you choose affect on your life. Different living condition, such as the age, the gender, the education level or something else will affect people to make different choice, and the different choice will result in the different development of individual. Life and choice are the mutual.

In the technologically advanced society, the condition that people really have no choice is very, very rare, especially in democracy country. For one thing, people have the basic right, including the right to choice, which is protected by the law; Of course the choice should not beyond the range of the law. People have more freedom and choice than before; they can do what they want to, and reject what they dislike. For another, the high-speed development of society provides more choice than ever. Such instance is countless, people can chose their favorite food, chose the fashion clothes, chose the beautiful and comfortable city to live in, and chose the scene in the world to travel, maybe one day can travel to another planet in the future. That's to say, with the perfect of political institute and the development of the technology and science, people have more choice than ever and the circumstance that lacking choice is very rare.

But we often heard that people say “I have no choice but to do”, is it true? No! Usually there are two possibility that will make people feel "i have no choice" usually, one is that all the choices are not he or she wanted, so people thought no choice; another is that all the choices are fit for people, just because there are too choice can be chose, people do not know how to chose only one among them.

In the first condition, people always thought at least there is one choice he or she can accept, or can help solve the current problem, in fact not. So they will be disappointed at the status, and say no choice. We should play more attention on our attitude to choose the choice. If we have the subject and correct attitude, the thought "no choice” will be rejected. In the other condition, people are puzzled by so many choices that are over his or her estimate and it is hard to determine which one is fittest. It is a very common phenomenon that a woman feel no choice when she like so many fashion clothes in the shop, however she only afford one suit. Under this circumstance, we should take into account all factors we can ponder and determine which is the best one among so many choices.

To sum up, in the current society, the absence is the correct attitude to face choice, not choice. The right attitude to choose, not only help us the make choice easily, but also make the better choice.

[ Last edited by staralways on 2005-7-25 at 12:52 ]