Life's Choices

 

Cookie crumbs are most affected by gravitational forces.  That is universal.  Of course, there are some exceptions, although not around here. 

The very first time I put on my high school football uniform I began to imagine all of my body parts that hopefully this equipment would prevent from getting broken.  That quickly got me to thinking about high school budgets and the lowest bidder always getting the contract. 

It was then that I knew I wasn’t thinking like a football player, and maybe I was on the wrong path.  I stopped getting dressed and, on my way out of the building, I told the coach I had changed my mind. 

Over the course of my life, I changed my mind a great deal.  Now, looking back, there is no way of knowing how things would have turned out, had I just kept on the path I was on at the time.  I would have had different experiences and met different people.  Who knows where I would be today? 

With such flexibility of choices, it becomes hard to picture our lives following some predetermined course.   Then again, many people suggest things happen for a reason.  If Henry David Thoreau had not written Walden’s Pond. Many lives may have turned out quite differently.  You never know what is going to influence you one way or the other.

Some people see a cookie and think of the calories, while others might envision how wonderful it is going to taste.  I, of course, consider the carpet and the falling crumbs.

 

 

 

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