C-h-o-o-s-e !

"I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose."

                                                                  - Arthur Conan Doyle

This post is about things we choose.

Here is a monologue about having to choose too many things in our lives. It's from a movie called "Trainspotting" directed by Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionnaire / 127 Hours).

"Choose Life.

Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family.

Choose a f***ing big television.

Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers.

Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance.

Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments.

Choose a starter home.

Choose your friends.

Choose leisurewear and matching luggage.

Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of f***ing fabrics.

Choose DIY and wondering who the f*** you are on Sunday morning.

Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing f***ing junk food into your mouth.

Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, f***ed up brats you spawned to replace yourselves.

Choose your future.

Choose life.

But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?”

Even though this is one of my favourite filmi monologues, yet I endorse to choose. Ewen McGregor, the actor who spoke these lines, chooses the films he wants to do, and does all the things he doesn't choose in the monologue. (Films do corrupt your mind... and the only ones who are not at all affected are the ones who corrupt).
Yes! To choose gives satisfaction of having had options and not having had something forced upon you or having had to accept something which never was an open-ended or close-ended option. And so is the meaning of the word "choose" - decide on a course of action, typically after rejecting alternatives.

I choose life. I choose to love. I choose to be humane. And I choose to be what my soul desires!!!!! (BIG STATEMENTS.... YES! I even choose to make 'em sometimes!)
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Slahu

P.s. This post doesn’t endorse use of drugs. Take ‘em at your own risk!!!!!