Selection

The Absence of Choice is a Circumstance that is Very, Very Rare

The above is today’s issue topic, and when I got the topic, I felt that discussing choice at this time is truly most appropriate. We face countless choices in our lifetime, and each choice will lead us to different paths in life. The absence of choice, as the topic says, is very, very rare. However, now that we have entered our 20s, we might as well ask ourselves, how many of our choices are truly our own decisions? Upon detailed self-reflection, you will discover that from birth, you have had no choice in your gender, parents; in the process of growing up, perhaps many people have not followed their own will but have instead conformed to the standardized path of “studying - working - getting married and having children - raising the next generation,” and your children may also follow the same path in life. From this perspective, it seems that choice does not exist. Nevertheless, it is on this already established path that people are making efforts to change their living environment through their own hard work, entering their ideal schools, choosing their preferred majors, engaging in careers that interest them, and building families with people they love.

Actually, we face many choices.

For example, now we need to face the choice of whether to work or pursue further education. This choice, in fact, is just one of the countless choices we will make in our lives. And this decision will, to a greater or lesser extent, change our future path in life.

Why do we feel confused? Because from a young age, we have been walking almost a single path, and the so-called choices are, at most, about entering a better, higher-level school. Subconsciously, we believe that the only path is to further our education, and we do not know what lies beyond this path.

This is, in a certain sense, the first time we are truly making our own choices. I think, no matter what you choose, no matter the outcome, it actually does not matter.

I think,

we might as well put aside all worldly thoughts, not considering - money, house, car, marriage, children - because these are not your life.

We might as well calm down and listen to our own inner thoughts.

Only your own inner depths know what you should choose, and that will certainly lead you to a happy and fulfilling life.