Selection

The Absence of Choice is a Circumstance that is Very, Very Rare

The above is today’s issue topic. When I got the topic, I felt that discussing choice at this time is truly timely. We face countless choices in our lives, and each choice leads us to a different path. The absence of choice, as the topic says, is very, very rare. However, when we have already entered our 20s, we might as well ask ourselves, how many of our choices are truly our own decisions? Upon careful examination of our lives, we will discover that from birth, we have had no choice in our gender, parents; in the process of growing up, perhaps many people are not voluntary but follow the conventional path of “study - work - get married - have children,” and our children may also follow the same path as us. From this perspective, it seems that choice does not exist. Nevertheless, it is on this already established path that people are working hard to change their living environment through their own efforts, enter their ideal schools, choose their preferred majors, engage in careers they are interested in, and build families with the people they love.

In fact, we face many choices. For example, now we need to face the choice of whether to work or pursue further studies. This choice is just one of the countless choices we will make in our lives. This decision will, to a greater or lesser extent, change our future paths.

Why do we feel lost? Because from a young age, we have been walking almost a single path, and the so-called choices are, at most, just getting into a better, higher-level school. Subconsciously, we think that there is only one path - upgrading our education. What does it look like to deviate from this path? No one knows.

This is, in a sense, the first time we truly make our own choices. I think, no matter what you choose, no matter what the outcome is, it actually doesn’t matter.

I think,

we might as well put aside all worldly thoughts, and not consider - money, houses, cars, marriage, children - because these are not your life.

We might as well calm down and listen to our own inner thoughts.

Only your own inner depths know what you should choose, and that will certainly lead you to a happy and fulfilling life.