The sunset is an illusion, but the beauty is real.
So,
Life is an illusion, but the choices are real.
I wonder whether I should be more careful. The roads not travelled disappear with our decisions, and the people walking them fade into facsimiles. Choices might never be wrong, but they can be detrimental to our interests. Today is done. Tomorrow will be different. Emptier? Fuller? Time, that other great illusion, will tell. Should I believe any of it?
2 comments:
What do you think of the statement: your day is what you make of it?
I know it doesn't directly relate, but the beauty of your writing is that it gets me thinking about all sorts of tangents. :)
I think it's like so many other questions. It depends on the level to which you want to take it. As the boy in 'What the Bleep Do We Know' says: 'How far down the rabbit hole do you want to go?'
On the surface level, it's apparent that things happen which are beyond our control. What is within our control, given such variables as personality, practice and will, is the way we respond to those happenings. Hence the expression 'You've got to laugh, haven't you?'
On a wholly different level, there are those (including, it seems, some quantum theorists) who claim that every aspect of our personal world is self-created. I haven't got to the bottom of that one yet.
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