Life is full of quirks. I realised this pretty much straight away, but just how devious it can be is something I didn’t fully understand until recently.

I’ve always been a firm believer in choices. That the choices you make are the reasons your life follows the path that it does. That there is no such thing as true fate or destiny because life is what we make it. Sometimes life doesn’t work out the way we really want it to. And when it doesn’t we can either choose to pick ourselves up and continue on or we can let it beat us into submission. There is always a choice.

There are of course always events that are out of our control. And recently I often wondered why they occurred, why we would be given choices where neither option would seem like the right one.

Until I realised that you can never see into the future, and would never know the future choices that await you. So even a choice that appears to be a sacrifice or in some way against what you want for your life, it is simply a pathway leading to yet more choices.
Choices that can take your breath away.