choice

[Guest guest]

All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what

distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether

they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what

we do to make them come about... We do not choose to be

born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our

historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the

immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most

of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and

conditions of our death. But within this realm of

choicelessness, we do choose how we live.

--Joseph Epstein