So…last night, when I was in bed. I kept hearing a voice. I can’t remember what it was saying, but I do remember it getting madder as I was yelling at it to stop. I just wanted the damn voice to stop, and I couldn’t make it stop! Oh man that was annoying, so very annoying that it wouldn’t stop and I couldn’t make it stop. Life feels so difficult at times with these voices doing whatever the hell they want to do in my head. I can’t seem to shake them. Maybe I need to be put on a different medication? I’m not sure. I just want to feel normal, whatever normal is. I’m not even sure I know what normal is now! Talk about a nightmare. A living nightmare that I cannot control in any way, shape, or form. I want it to end somehow. I don’t even know how to make that possible.
There are some decisions that I like to call “fatal decisions”. That is, once a decision is made it cannot be undone. It’s set in stone, and there is no going back. There’s a good example of this thought in a song lyric:
Tattoos of memories, and dead skin on trial.1
What it boils down to is this: You either make decisions in this life that have lasting consequences, or you make decisions that are temporary. These fall into two categories. “Fatal Decisions” and “Temporary Decisions”. I think it is better for us to make more Temporary Decisions. Fatal Decisions tend to be more lasting and riskier. We can back out of Temporary Decisions.
The decision to make one or the other isn’t always up to us though. It would be nice if that decision was always in our control, but life doesn’t always work out that way. Sometimes we are forced into making a Fatal Decision. There is no escape from it, and escape is something that is very tempting. We want to be able to change things in our lives. We want to go back and undo certain things. That would require a time machine, and those don’t exist.2
Living life means you must take chances and risks as it were. No matter what happens in life, there are decisions that must be made. Risk is all a part of it. There’s nothing we can do about risk. Sure, we can limit risk, but we cannot avoid risk altogether.
Risk is part of the game if you want to sit in that chair.3
So, there we have it. Life isn’t without risk as risk is a part of it. I wish I could say it was something else, anything else. But I can’t. Life doesn’t work out that way. It’s a shame, I know, but that’s how life rolls. Personally, I would love it if this life didn’t have any risks. No matter which route you decide to go on it would be okay. I suppose there would be no challenge to life if that were the case.
Life is meant to be a challenge. There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s always a challenge no matter which route you decide to take. I think that’s what makes life interesting. If there were no challenges, life would be boring. We would have nothing to strive for.
It is important to trust in the Lord.
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.4
If we don’t trust in the Lord, we are going to make mistakes. Sure, mistakes come no matter what happens in life. We will make mistakes daily. But if we trust in the Lord, we can avoid making some of those mistakes. We can avoid problems in this life. I don’t know about you, but I would rather avoid problems than have to deal wtih them. The issue with avoiding problems is we don’t grow from our mistakes. Isn’t that a key point in life? To learn from the mistakes we make? I think it is.
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