Heads you live; Tails you die.

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In life, we make choices, from the first minute we are born until the minute we die, we make choices. the first few years of our lives we have our parents to aid our choice making. They help craft our minds to how they would see any given scenario, shape us into them via many protocol. The more we age we gain more responsibility which piles on more

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Mitch-
Insightful, definately. I have to say it's refreshing to sit down and read thoughts that are a little more meaningful (not that I don't love staying in contact with friends I wouldn't otherwise see; it's just that you can only stand to read "school/work/life/etc. sucks" so many times in a given week).
But I thought I'd cut in with a comment of my own: don't get so caught up in your choices that you don't go anywhere. Life, as you said, is exactly that. Living. Making choices, and seeing them (or not seeing them) through. You can't live without making choices, you can't grow, you can't experience life in the way it was meant to be felt.
It's good to slow down every once in a while and look at the options laid out in front of you, to examine the future, and to understand the past. But (and I am speaking of my own mistakes here) when you spend so much time focusing on what did happen, what could happen, so on and so forth, you fail to make any progress at all, and then BAM!
Before you know it, you missed your chance to make a choice. And so you've fallen off a cliff and now you're sitting at the bottom of some ravine.
It happens to everyone, yes, and that's part of life. But it's important to minimize that, no? I mean, we're all going to die anyway. But that doesn't mean you should smoke six packs a day, do drugs, and drink a pint of beer every night, right?
I've come to see lately how hazardous 20/20 hindsight is. It hurts you, it breaks you down. And yes, it's important to learn and to change, but eventually, if you spend all your time looking backwards while you're trying to walk forwards, you're going to trip and fall on your face.
Just something to consider. Not quite sure how much sense that's going to make, but oh well. I have a special talent for going off onto random tangets :)
As the saying goes, "Don't take life so seriously; no one gets out alive."

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One thing you didn't think of though, is while your making your choices, you also have to decide on how long to take on them. i think i might have touched a bit into that when i explained how i percieved it. while you do have a point, it fits in almost perfectly with what i was trying to express, Life only goes as fast as you can percieve it, if you take time to think when you get the chance is when you make your major choices, like i explained i do. Choice is wonderful though, you chose before you even got through the first paragraph in this that you would most likely comment on it. Thats how lightning fast our choice making has become, and believe it or not, we do need to slow it down quite often to fully evaluate many situations that we shrug off as unimportant simply because it doesn't pertain to us as much as others.