Have you examined the roles that choice &chancehave played in your life so far,and have you drawn conclusions?

Question

for living wisely???

Answer 1

I've concluded that chance favor those who put themselves in Chance's path. Those who wait for their ship to come in wait in vain. Those who go out and try to build their own boat to sail to new horizons are the ones that get someplace. It may not be where they planned and it is virtually guaranteed that you will fall down multiple times in the process, but when you keep trying chance will favor you.

Choice comes into it the form of whether you choose to place yourself in chance's path, the means you use to do so and how hard you try at whatever you do. Without those things you are little more than a leaf at the mercy of strange winds.

Living wisely means little more than knowing what you do and why you do it. Randomly stepping out into the street for no reason is foolish. Looking both ways in the full knowledge that there are cars on the street is sense. Choosing to cross the street at a given moment because it serves your purposes and you do so fully informed of all the risks is wisdom.

Answer 2

Hi,
What a great question. I haven't examined this thought in detail but it is something I think about. I do believe hard work brings results and we have to make the effort to make something of our lives. I also believe if you put in the effort, now and again, a lovely opportunity arises and it makes me wonder if this is evidence of some outside force supporting what we do! There are few choices I regret. Some choices did not ‘happen’ due to circumstances outside my control and whenever this has occurred I feel it has been for a reason. Some options we have no choice about for instance there are some difficult times ahead for my family that I can only pray we all get through. Heaven knows what it will do to my beliefs/way of thinking if we don’t! This has led me to the conclusion that to live wisely at the moment for us is to accept, hope, trust and take each day one at a time until this difficult phase is over.
Polly

Answer 3

I can't say I've drawn any conclusions to live "wisely"--I might be considered a risk taker; I love the unpredictable. I was impressed with the answer of no_dirt_on_my_shoulders, as he basically says what I often have said. What might have been perceived as mistakes at the time, evolved into things I'll always value. I regret nothing. & that's the way I'm living now; who knows where the trails will lead?

Answer 4

Yes. I made some choices in my youth that seemed pretty common at the time. Over the course of time in watching Friends and neighbors that made those same choices I discovered that only by some twist of fate, or chance, I didn't end up strung out on drugs hooked up with an idiot on my way to jail. Almost all of the people I know of that made similar choices are there now.
I share this story with young people now. It may work, it may not but I share it none the less.

Answer 5

I have come to the conclusion I am who I am; I never noticed any roles being played, most likely I ignored them, doesn't matter I am who I say I am and that's good enough for me.

Answer 6

over last year or so i have spent lot of time searching inwardly. only then was i able to see what others saw, growth in me. while choices i made when i was younger may not have seemed that relivent in some cases (while others where direct branches in path of life,) i see now that without them how many things i never would have experenced or how many lives i never would have touched. while many would say i made bad choices i wouldnt trade them for anything, would lose to many close friends that way and never have the stories i got now.

Answer 7

No.
Conclusion(s); virtually every one of us has been taught

in a Darwinist mode. To be the best,is,apparently,to be
the wisest.
Not quite (the biological) Darwinism as originated, just
our so-called modern way(!)

Answer 8

Yes.