Archive for October 8th, 2012
Choice
In a recent conversation with a dear friend, she shared with me an experience years ago which had a profound affect on the direction of her life. As she relates it, she was sharing a journal entry with a close friend about a deeply traumatic personal experience At the end of the entry she had written, “I don’t know how I am ever going to live with this?” Her friend answered with, “How are you going to live with it?”
She said to me that the unexpected question gave her a profound insight she had not seen. That how she ‘lived with it’ was a choice. It was empowering for her to realize that she had a choice. She went on to reveal that the insight gleaned from that simple question has continued to guide her life ever since.
Her story was a powerful reminder to me. A reminder of just how much choice we actually have when dealing with the challenging ebbs and flows of life’s vicissitudes.