It's Time

Somewhere within the infinitesimal moments of time between this moment and what is now the past we made a choice. We have made and are making a series of infinite choices to do precisely what we are doing this moment. The choice may not have been deliberate, intentional, or precise, but it was a choice that eminated from within the almagamation of thought, experience, emotion, spirit, and instinct that we know as our self.

Knowing this does two things. First, it correctly places the responsibility for our self within our own capacity for choice. This by no means makes the element of choice simple as some in our culture would falsely make it out to be. Our choice is also always indelibly formed by the external forces that come from the people we know as lovers or call strangers, as well as the group of people we know as society. It is impossible to remove the external or internalized impact of these forces from our decision-making process. Nevertheless, we are responsible to claim the responsibility of decision-making - however convoluted that responsibility may be - as our own.

Secondly, this means that we can choose to do something different at any time. The trick is the discernment of making those decisions based upon deliberate personal values. We can make a different decision in the time it took to finish reading this last word. Or this one. Or. That. One. Some of you know the decision you need to make, but haven't yet and should not read another word of this and go do that thing you've been putting off. Stop wasting your time reading my blither blather. Go do something. Make the choice. It's yours. Others will will tell you it's not. They'll tell you it's theirs. They're wrong. Go do something that matters. Waste not another nanosecond...because it's already passed.