Fundamental Concepts and Definations: CHOICE.

Choice is a very uniquely beautiful concept.  Have personally experienced how choice can literally save lives in an impossible situation and also, destroy lives in a very positive situation as well.  Choice is more of an action, than words.  You choose your path of life, through your actions.  You can choose to accept a marriage proposal given to you by someone who loves you or even reject it.  It is complete action.  Many people don’t understand why some things happen in their life.  They say, “Why would I choose to hurt a near and dear one?”  But the fact is, knowingly or unknowingly, you can inflict pain on anyone, be it someone close to your heart or the person could mean to be no one to you.  For example, people have even murdered a near and dear one under the influence of fear or ignorance.  In India, the concept of Honour Killing exists in which parents have murdered their own children because they married outside their caste or in some places, within their village.  Under the influence of ignorance, they literally murdered their own kids; they ‘chose’ to kill their kids.  When under the influence of a negative emotion, you tend to do such things.  Some situations take place due to ignorance, or lack of knowledge or even fear.  How this happens, we will see in further chapters.