Winterborn

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[font=Palatino Linotype][color=#999999]J[color=#99AA99]ust as I, we all choose.

Be it consciously or subconsciously, willingly or impartially, even against our will, we choose. When you wake up and get ready to head to work, you may choose how to dress, which path to take that will get you to your workplace, you may choose to have a cup of coffee and French toast, or maybe tea and sausage, and eggs, and bacon. Typical conscious choices going according to your own will.

When you or I cross a road and suddenly hear a car approaching quickly from the side, we either run further forward to cross the road, or we step back and let it pass before we attempt to cross the road again. We don't really think about it, it's a more subconscious and instinctive choice tied together with our survival instinct, and it is not against our own will, as much as we might be upset about a jerk not slowing down for us and riding shotgun as we try to cross said road.

Now let's look at a different situation. Imagine we are soldiers on a battlefield and we are forced to choose between charging a heavily-defended enemy position or trying to slip past it in order to reach our objective. We would rather not have said enemy position be there in the first place, wouldn't we, so we could continue to our objective. But it's there. We can choose between trying to assault it and trying to slip past it. But in truth we don't want to have to face that particular problem at all, yet its existence forces us into a position, mentally, at which the road splits, figuratively speaking, and we have to choose. We ultimately choose one or the other, but we'd rather we hadn't had to in the first place. We do it consciously, but against our will.

No matter where we go, we are faced with the task of making decisions as we continue our life-long journey through the universe.