Choices and Outcomes

The choices we make today (or when we were twelve) can affect the rest of our lives. But we never know how they will do it until it is done. Perhaps we stay at the party and have a few drinks, or perhaps we are tired and just say hello and go home, perhaps we damage a friendship and need to repair the feelings of rejection or perhaps our drink gets spiked and we find ourselves in hospital the next morning not being able to remember anything hoping that we were not raped, and then we never trust anyone again, not a friend (to watch a drink) or a stranger or a police officer. Or we may have slept in and avoided being involved in a five car pile up on the way to work but we may never know because we were not there to swerve away from the truck that didn’t indicate changing lanes and hit the other car, so it never even happened.