What's Your CHOICE?

This is my first actual journal for this year. I don’t know what got into me but I just feel like writing in this unholy hour, 1:00 a.m. to be precise. I just came from a tequila party at a friend’s house and hey! Don’t ever think it’s a by-product of alcohol intoxication as I, in my own evaluation, sensed that the motivation came from elsewhere outside the alcohol influence.
I have this deep urge to writing about one’s journey to life as it influences the people around him or her. I have been living a life filled with emotional struggles in the quest of my own true identify. As I travel along that road, I noticed that the path always lead you to potholes and crossroads. Potholes that could stumble you, make you lose balance, let you really fall hard and deep; or crossroads that lead you to a different world outside your comfort, or bring you to another series of confusing passageways, or perhaps a dead end… but in the end, what I realize is that the choice one makes made the big difference whether one is on the right track or not.
Some people complained about how their lives turned out to be such a web of endless confusion, on how their present state of mind and heart got hardly affected by the failure of their past love affair, or how they regret on having to work in a company they dislike that they feel so lost and stagnant and very much wanting to try things outside the expectations set for them. I could not help but feel really burdened and sad reflecting on what really transpired after one made the choice, not knowing how this would affect him or her. In my own experience, after 32 years of being who I am, I could say I made the not so good choices in my life but it also became my choice to be positively influenced by that choice or not. Everything boils down to CHOICE.
I remembered a friend asking me on why God created men to have free will when He already laid our future in His hands. Well, what do you think I would say? In my own understanding of the reason beyond the beauty of free will is that man is created to choice which way to go to go to His ultimate destination, which is being united in the heaven with God. On the question on how come God had made certain ranges of roads for one to choose…then perhaps it is not because God wanted to mislead us but God had no power over our free will or choice, all He wanted is to provide every possible avenue in order for us to reach heaven no matter how misguided our choices were once were.
OUR OWN CHOICES DICTATES THE KIND OF LIFE WE ARE NOW EMBRACING. To influence a brighter future then perhaps, it is but high time making the right choices based on God’s truth and love.
I may sound overly serious in my quest but hey, I just want to start the year right for our resolutions and deep wanting to have a better nation is highly influenced by our choices. Certain personalities like our national heroes and other inspirational individuals like Rizal, Bonifacio, Ninoy, Manny Pacquiao or for the youth, Chris Tiu had made their choices that made them great, should you want to be like them then perhaps… make that CHOICE!
Luceat Lux.