Death And Grief Leads To Choices

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Of course one rarely thinks about the reason they are who they are. The steps that caused them to be the way the are. They don’t think about the path that they’re on until the point of no return.

Choices are the path we walk. Every choice is a split in the path. One miss step and the only result will be death. Death leads to grief. Grief leads to sorrow and depthless misery. Misery and sorrow lead to choices. And choices, depending on the state of the mind, lead to reckless behavior and ever more choices. The circle and paths of choices reflect how people deal with adversity.

Would one person, who has never seen a hard day in their live, who has had success thrust upon them, who doesn’t know what the word adversity fundamentally means,

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