Do we really have a choice, can we really choose our path, are we truly in control? We’d like to think so, but I wonder. Or are we just reactions to the previous actions before us? Are we not just the results of experiences with our environments, shaped and molded?
We like to think we have control of our feelings and passions, but where did they come from? Were they too, not engrained into us by our participation with the world around us? This is what makes us all connected, this butterfly effect, we are all parts of one whole circle of movement.
Our minds, feelings, desires, thoughts, do we really have control? or are they too the outcome of the income we’ve received? We can’t handle the thought of believing we don’t have control, but watch how I make you react to my words I’ve written here. Is it a reaction, or an uninfluenced choice?
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Either way you still do what you believe you want to, so what difference does it make?
PS Who are the “we, you and I” of which you speak?
Doesn’t everything make a difference to something?
If something is separate from everything.
Something is part of everything, yet unique in its part. Another wonderful paradox of the world.
The “in-love” aspect of life creates degrees of risk but love is what we learn supports our best efforts.
Hi Bradford, That is an interesting observation, which left me with these thoughts: What if one loves everything equally? Then are not the degrees of risk equal as well? Would we live through life equally motivated through each present moment?
Equality is balanced with individuality (style development). I am hoping to neutralize good/bad materialism with a mariage vow, “for better or for worse” as commitment to (more)changable motives. I guess I’m hoping to not get pinned down(in search of freedom)?
Congratulations Bradford! Well, just partake in the relationship, without any attachment, and perhaps your search of freedom may be complimented by it. I can understand your hope of removing the discrimation of good/bad. I too, am trying to cast away my opinions in order to see clearly.