Choice is power, we make choices every day. But not every decision we make is a moral choice. If it's up to me, I'd want to do everything. Our wants are insatiable which is why it is so important to do what we can do and not what we want to do. The future does not happen because we create it. It happens based on the choices we make because each choice leads to a consequence and each of these consequences will come together and make what we become. The future isn't something that comes about by chance and it is not something that just happens to us. Happiness, too, is a choice because nobody chooses to be unhappy. Those who are unhappy will always have the option of doing something about it and those who refuse not to take that option or decide not to, will only be choosing to live in denial and choose to believe that they are powerless to help themselves.

Yet, if yu try to explain this to someone who is whining about their problems, their response to yu would probably be that yu don't know what it's like to be in their shoes. Which is true. Yu wouldn't know what it's like for that other person but neither does that person know what it is like for someone with bigger problems.That's the issue. We can feel our own pain, but we cannot feel the pain of another.

I wish I had some form of a magical device, that I could use to increase my level of pain to someone else's who has it ten times harder than I do and force myself to endure that pain for only five minutes. And when the five minutes are up, I could lower the pain to it's previous level. I'll bet I'll be thankful that things are not worse than they already are for me.

I've been insecure and I've been feeling sorry for myself alot lately. And I just want to be reminded that every time I feel tempted to do that, there will always be someone who has it worse and I couldn't possibly imagine how much more difficult it would be for me to live as that person. Maybe then I'd be grateful for what I have.