We already know that our lives are guided by every choice we make, that’s what God intended through free will. But in our lives there are some choices so insignificant and so trivial that we don’t spend a second thinking about them (if we ever do), yet they still mark out part of our moral fiber, our strength of character and our very own future.

This idea got started in my head when I thought about those that I felt were inconsequential choices, and I sat down and rewinded my entire day.

I wrote down every situation on my day and the choices that I had at each point; how I decided to wake up, if I did exercise before or after breakfast, if I actually had breakfast, etc. etc. All this came to some interesting conclusions regarding how my day would’ve turned out; like the famous butterfly effect.

Have you ever thought about your inconsequential choices? How are they affecting your life? Maybe more than you can even imagine. We choose to take a right instead of left, go up instead of going down. We even pick our feel for the day without even realizing it at times, and that is how our day turns out.

Love, for example, is something we knowingly choose to begin in our lives, but we never think how we unconsciously choose the very next day to remain, and so on and so forth until one day we again consciously stop choosing that someone. People don’t really belong to us regardless of what contract they sign or vow they agree to, they accept to be with us every day the moment they wake up, and we take that for granted sometimes.

Lately I’ve been writing about choices, more than anything I guess. My life is filled with uncertainties, possibly like any other. Sadly unlike many, I take regret very seriously so I am always terrified of taking that next step, afraid that I will be making, not necessarily the wrong choice but the less favorable. Now I’m so paranoid I’m even second-guessing my inconsequential choices, the ones that are not supposed to be picked by the brain… boy can I suck the joy out of life sometimes!

Class dismissed.