Merry Christmas to Anyone & Everyone...
When we are born, we are born with two and only two things in common. We are all born naked and we are born with the ability to choose. Nakedness is also a choice since the climate, social mores and the like dictate whether we cover ourselves to any extent. Fashion later on also determines the nature, color and condition of our clothes. But these again are choices.
From our cellular beginnings, we have a hormone system which determines the choice of fight or flight. If it looks like it is big enough to eat us, we run. And if it looks like a tasty morsel much to our liking then we fight, attack and eat it. Our immune system works much the same way. When anything alien is encountered, it decides to absorb it into our being or to encapsulate it, destroy it and eject it through the trash disposal system that eliminates our waste.
At least in this universe.. God did not make a one-ended stick. So when we come to a fork in the road... we have a choice. We can go right, we can go left or we can stay put... but to stay put is not really a good choice. Once we decide to go right or left, we can't go back. We must go forward and examine the results which gives us experience, which molds our attitude and determines the outcome of whatever we were involved in. In a previous post I pointed out that our Attitude is the sum total of our Opinions and our experiences.(A=O+E) which means that in order to change the outcome we must change our Attitude by changing either our Opinion of the outcome or our Experience of the outcome.
The key here, I'm afraid, is the word experience. So far as I know, we cannot at least yet time travel. So going back to the last fork in the road and taking the other leg does not seem possible. But what we can do is to put the experience in our memory banks against the day that a similar fork is presented to us.
A lot of this is developed in the story of Alice in Wonderland which is illustrated by Marc E. Jones in his commentary at http://www.sabian.org/. It makes one wonder that these signposts were left for us by some previous personalities namely Charles Dodgson otherwise known as Lewis Carroll.
But then it is Christmas time which is a magical time of the year.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year...
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