Thursday, March 28, 2024
While scrolling recently, I saw a headline: “Why you need to deposit $5000 in a CD, right now.” Other headlines: “No need to panic now,” or “Why you should be worried about x, y, or z.” On a recent flight on one of those discount airlines, they made an announcement about an “exciting opportunity,” a credit card which included all sorts of perks and benefits and that I needed to take advantage of the offer, right now. If I didn’t know any better, I’d think that the world was trying to tell me who I was, what I was missing, and what was good or bad for me. Why can’t I decide for myself?
The world seems to have choices. Dating apps, for example, are misleading. All those beautiful faces seem like choices. In the back of our collective minds, the world feels like a smorgasbord. But it doesn’t work that way.
What you see “out there” are not choices. Choice, as I’ve said before, is an illusion. If you really examine yourself, you’d realize there is no choice. What you desire and what you prefer is ensouled in you. You don’t want “everything.” You want what’s yours, what feels true and rightful. You were created to have and to do those things that are specific to your calling.
Choice is limited, but that’s the beauty – you don’t have to pretend that the world is your oyster. It frees you from the wide-eyed, slot-machine mentality of “gimme, gimme, gimme.” Your path is narrow, specific, and custom. No need to look outward, or to let others tell you who you are, what you need, or what you ought to do. All of it is here. You just have to know where to find it, and I can tell you, it’s not “out there” in what appears to be choices in the land of plenty.