Practice the right to choose right

By Gil delos Santos

The upcoming national polls pop an idea in my head about the people's biggest right to choose. It is the occasion when everyone becomes the loudest in expressing their right in response to who to choose in the seat for public office.

Far from that scene - in the quieter everyday life, most of you tend not to practice that right to choose right to work on your advantage. You are surrounded by opportunities if your consciousness is up...yet you always catch yourself trapped in between situations that limits the healthy mindset to exercise uncompelled right to choose until it's too late.

Life as you make it, you create your own options. Your heart dictates your mind what to choose between what you have previously created in your subconscious mind. Make it a conscious effort in your process of option-making. Be clear and straightforward to your conscious self to choose being smart than by being stupid. Like, by not by clinging to a wrong belief or superstition or Feng-shui. Be attached to the realities that offer contrast to fairytales.

Most desperate minds believe that they are out of choice, that they don't have other choice why they end up with something unfortunate or have fallen into a wrong person or have done imprudent moves. Silly! You create your own choices. What you only need to do is to practice your right to choose RIGHT over CONVENIENCE.

Legend:

RIGHT - reality

CONVENIENCE - fairytale

In your option-making process, it is not always easy to create the right choice. It is a product of hard work, right intention, and time machinery in full consciousness - the basic requirements that no shortcut is possible.

To make it easier:

being insecure

being envious

being obsessed

being stupid

being stubborn

being negative

are all product of individual choices. Choose right than convenience. Choose reality than fairytale. Practice that right to choose right to become friends with mighty might. Right?

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