#WhatIsChoice?

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Q2, YouthUnmuted: What is "choice" and how would we be living our lives now if we had changed anything in the past?

A2, Maddie: To me, choice is power. The power to write your own story. It’s taking a chance sometimes, too. I’m a firm believer in the idea that everything happens for reason, so I think that changing one thing could completely alter where you are today. Little decisions can be connected to big ones; in the moment, you have no idea how they are connected. I use college as an example because when I made the choice to come here, I unknowingly made the choice to meet all my now best friends and have all these amazing experiences. If I chose a different school, then I never would have met these people or fallen in love with this town.

Submission by Maddie R, 20, of San Luis Obispo, California, USA for We Have Questions on Isolationship-Journal in answer to Question 2: "What is "choice" and how would we be living our lives now if we had changed anything in the past?" asked by young adult artists from YouthUnmuted. Q2 is inspired by their accessible, audiovisual podcast, Now You Hear Us, which examines life in refugee camps and host communities from the perspective of young people. Learn more about the We Have Questions creative project, YouthUnmuted, and this question's topic at isolationship-journal.tumblr.com

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Word of the Day: #Choice

Word of the day: #Choice P.S. Join me for my Book Launch & Signing, “Live like a King without going broke” on Thur, Nov 8th 2018 @ 6pm in #Kampala Get your FREE ticket here: https://www.facebook.com/events/332853204187582/?ti=ia 👉🏾To pre-order the book, Type “ORDER” and your copy will be reserved (40k). 👉🏾To read chapter 1 of the book, visit https://www.mothereagle.net/p/live-like-a-king-without-goin… #booklaunch, #networking, #meetandgreet, #personalfinance ____________ Hello world changers, history makers, pace setters, it's Mother Eagle here, how is everybody doing? I hope you're doing well. I have a word for you today, the word of the day is #choice. You know, I was thinking about choice yesterday. We make choices every day, moment to moment, moment to moment, and the accumulation of our choices is the direction we go to. We've known that all of our choices are based on the experiences we have, the knowledge we have, the level of understanding we have about a choice we have to make or a topic or a direction we have to go to, and those accumulated choices are ones that take you to the success you want to go to, or to the direction you want to go to. The thing is I want us to expand ourselves a little bit more. Can we make choices cautiously? With the idea that the choice you make today will be part of where you'll go tomorrow, you see? Or the choice you make today will part of the generation after you, even the generation past. For example, if you do a level of healing on yourself, maybe there is a family trait that is not so good, maybe alcoholism, and you heal yourself from that. You'll find that your next generation will be better because of the choice you made. (Hi, thank you for joining!) Because of the choice you made, now the generations in the future are doing better, so I would like to encourage you today, as you make choices, look at patterns, you know? Sometimes we think we have one or the other, but there is always a way, and there is always a third choice. There is always that choice that's not part of the few that you've been given, and always strive for that. It doesn't have to be this or that. How about this and that and then some more, you see? So, expand the way you think. Expand the way you pick and make choices. My dad always says, "If there is no door, you create one." So, think outside the box when you're making choices. I was talking to an eagle last week and they were stuck in a hard place. And all they had to do was combine unrelated things in order to form a new choice to get to the direction they wanted. So some of the choices you will have to make in your life maybe unconventional from the area you are. Maybe no one in your family has ever made such a choice, so you'll be a world changer, a pace setter, and you'll literally be setting the pace and creating a new way of doing the same old thing. We are innovators. We create things. So you'll have to look at patterns. Look at patterns. Maybe if you are a business owner from different industries and combine them to create something you want to create. So, that's a different choice. There is also when you think outside the box, I made here some notes, let's see. Yeah, be sensitive to Divine timing. Sometimes making no choice is a choice. Sometimes you just have to stand back and wait until the choice appears, so you have to also respect Divine timing. Remember you are walking in a bigger picture environment. It's known to only you in the sequence of this world, so your choices are going to affect other people and, you know, other surrounding. So think in terms of big picture. Think in terms of long term. So, when it comes to choice one, transcend traditional ways of doing things. Think outside the box. Two, look for patterns, and three, look for or create new ways and have the boldness to do it, but remember the choices we make today will contribute to who we'll be tomorrow, so always think about that. Read the full article

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Q2, YouthUnmuted: What is "choice" and how would we be living our lives now if we had changed anything in the past?

A2, Chia: I like to think of choice as the ensemble of possibilities presented on a table by my brain. Making a choice not only considers the present, but everything after that. Okay, I decide I want to study law. By choosing what type of career I want to pursue, I eliminate everything else. My brain also thinks, Is this choice the easiest way? What do I win and lose by choosing this option? What is best for me right now? What is something that will help me in advance? Some choices aren’t really choices, only manipulative strategies to make a person do something. Your parents could say, clean your room or forget about receiving your allowance. It’s your choice. Is it? Some even argue that choice is all an illusion. That we are driven by forces beyond our own conscious mind. Behavioral genetics influence your decisions, and your upbringing and environment do too. You can’t control what genes were passed down to you, or how you were raised, so does choice really cease to exist? As a practical person, the first thing that comes to mind when changing the past would be to have bought more stocks and invested in more companies. I realize that it's a selfish decision, because I would be significantly better-off after this alteration. But just me. Maybe I would choose to make a slightly stronger impact on the past, like making sure Hitler never rose to power. Preventing World War I. There are endless options, and endless ways to ensure it. ----------------------------- Sources I browsed while pondering these questions: https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2018/11/22/does-choice-exist/#comment-anchor https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/in-control/201609/you-have-no-choice#:~:text=To%20many%20people%20it%20is,the%20least%20choice%20of%20all. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/science/22tier.html

Submission by Chia L, 14, of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA for We Have Questions on Isolationship-Journal in answer to Question 2: "What is "choice" and how would we be living our lives now if we had changed anything in the past?" asked by young adult artists from YouthUnmuted. Q2 is inspired by their accessible, audiovisual podcast, Now You Hear Us, which examines life in refugee camps and host communities from the perspective of young people. Learn more about the We Have Questions creative project, YouthUnmuted, and this question's topic at isolationship-journal.tumblr.com

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Q2, YouthUnmuted: What is "choice" and how would we be living our lives now if we had changed anything in the past?

A2, Kate: The first time I read this question I was instantly reminded of Robert Frost's "Road Not Taken." The common interpretation of this poem is a very packaged idea about individualism that translates today into a classic Americana propaganda. But the truer interpretation of Frost's words has as one commentator put it "a wolf in sheep's clothing effect" where the narrator knows that the two paths were equal but comforts himself with the deception that one was less traveled and that walking that path is what led him to where he was. To me this speaks a lot to how we think about choice. Is there really ever one point where you can look back on something and pinpoint it as the moment where everything changed? Or do we look back on those chosen moments as a way to comfort and fortify ourselves when we are facing the idea that we have no control over what happens to us? Choice is about having the freedom to make a decision, but if no such freedom exists, then there can be no choice. So when we lack that freedom, or do not see that we have it, we go back and we construct an idea of how our lives have gone as a source of comfort, whether those ideas are real or not. The paths in Frost's poem were equally worn, but the narrator felt lost and out of control because he had no idea what would happen, so he constructs a false idea of his own reality to soothe himself about his own insecurities. We don't want to stop and ruminate over how our lives could be different if we had chosen something else because it is uncomfortable and often portrays oneself in an unkind light. So we tell ourselves that it's okay, that that one random decision is what led us to who we are today. But in reality, did we ever really have a choice in the matter?

  Submission by Kate B, 15, of North Carolina, USA for We Have Questions on Isolationship-Journal in answer to Question 2: "What is "choice" and how would we be living our lives now if we had changed anything in the past?" asked by young adult artists from YouthUnmuted. Q2 is inspired by their accessible, audiovisual podcast, Now You Hear Us, which examines life in refugee camps and host communities from the perspective of young people. Learn more about the We Have Questions creative project, YouthUnmuted, and this question's topic at isolationship-journal.tumblr.com