Choosing to Be

I’m not going to go into the politics of the American presidential election. That was yesterday.

Today, I get to choose something else.

I get to choose who to be in all of this.

For me, this is a call to live a conscious life even more, and to choose love, even more.

My job is, and always has been, to do the best that I can do to live consciously, and to choose love over fear, anger, and hatred.

My sense of well-being is and always has been an inside job.

No one and no circumstance can take that away from me.

If I let them take it away, I am being a victim, rather than being the resourceful person that I was born to be.

Viktor Frankl reminds us of this, from the voice of one who was in a concentration camp in World War II. He said that all freedoms can be taken away from us, except the freedom to choose our attitude and our way.

I am not saying this is always easy. I’m saying I get to choose.

I am also not saying that I am going to deny my feelings. I am saying that I am going to acknowledge them and feel them, and then I am going to move onto a place where I can do some good.

I can do some good by choosing to be a loving person.

This may not be every person’s path, but it is my path.

It is who I choose to be.

Who do you choose to be?

What is your right path?