THE POWER OF CHOICE

Sir,

“You know son, all that you see here didn’t just happen. I had to give my all, never giving up in my pursuit of my goals. I encountered resistance at times, had to sleep on an empty stomach not knowing what I’ll even eat the next day but then even so, I never gave up.
‘‘I kept on pushing hard until things started to go my way and guess what, I never looked back since then,” he said.

The son looking at his father, then gazing the other side, he says to himself “but dad, does he know what I’ve been through?
‘‘The things I’ve tried and all failed? Can he at least see how ‘tortured’ my soul is? The rejection and ridicule I’ve had to face.”
But before he knew it, he blurted out “Dad I’m tired. I don’t know if I have to clear my head or just accept everything. I’ve been everywhere but nothing has changed, one and the same story - heartbreak. I’ve knocked and tried to push doors open; had others shut before me, at times with no response. I have been rejected countless times, and then now I hear you talking of not giving up? How dad?”
By then the atmosphere around them had changed; so tense the old man took a deep breath and said; “You know son, I feel for you, I really do but let me ask you this.

Wrong

‘‘What if all the places you’ve been to were wrong? What if all the doors you knocked on were locked and rightly so? What if, to some, they heard your knock but they decided to take some time to attend to you just to be sure you really needed their attention but you just took a mere three minutes instead of five?”

Before he could answer back, the old man continued; “I know you are thinking that it’s all useless to go on now because you get the same results but actually, how would you possibly know that door you were about to knock on wasn’t locked if you didn’t attempt to open it?

‘‘You might have tried hard but it was all on the wrong doors, that’s why nobody has ever answered you. But then it’s okay son. You can decide to accept defeat in the face of your circumstances and seal your fate.

‘‘It’s entirely up to you. It all comes down to the power of choice.” By the time his father had finished, you’d swear he was one of those statues you see around town on display but the conversation was interrupted by the arrival of a neighbor.

#theoutspokenpacifist

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