Life Options

1. An employee or an employer?
2. A tenured employee (> 5 years) with one company or an experienced employee with multiple companies?
3. Spend 30+ years with one company or spend the 30+ years with 3 or more companies?
4. Be a lump sum lottery winner or a spread-out 30-year payout winner?
5. A specialized (work in one industry) professional or a multi-diversified one?
6. Retire young (@30 or 40) or later at >60?
7. Marry till death do you both apart or re-marry when death do you both apart?
8. Have children early (23-29) or later at 30+ - 50+?
9. Have only one child or at least two or more
10. Be a college-is-essential-and-mandatory or college-is-voluntary kind of parent?

Life Justifications

There is multitude in the valley of decision making for each one of us. We’re daily faced with options. “Should I have cereal or bacon and eggs for breakfast?” “Should I wear blue or black suit to that big interview/business meeting?” Who really cares and why do we? I propose to you that, for many, EGO is at the center of it all. However , we can also deduce that some do it for and to please others. It really doesn’t matter whether we eat or dress up for self or others. Though majorly better to do so for yourself, what essentially matters is that we do and have a balance in doing. Anyhow,

Homogeneity or Heterogeneity

Sometimes, I envision homogeneity in our grocery stores and/or communism as a better alternative. Well, not really. I love having options and I’m unfriendly with the robotic life. Talking about robots – they’re already here with us! That will be another blog.

With rare Guinness-Book-exception, our common denominator is that we are each born into the world with one head and a pair of eyes, ears, and limbs (arms and legs). There ends our similarities; everything else concerning each one of us is different. Though we might have attended the same schools or colleges, our demographics, which often determine our foundations and general lifestyles, are different. Siblings are different. So also are identical twins; they look alike, but often have different personalities. Also, America being a melting pot, makes our origins and individual outcomes different though we all share similar possible opportunities.

Your uniqueness is God’s trademark; one-of-a-kind, un-duplicatable, and un-counterfeit-able.

Think-Talk

I wonder then why we are all boxed up.

Just as this post’s image of the valencia oranges and one blood orange, we all look the same externally, but we’re different internally. The core internal feature is our heart.

I welcome guidelines and frameworks, but people should make room for their own individuality and not beat themselves down hard. Stop wondering why you aren’t like others. Identify your unique trait and walk talk in it.

Conclusion

I said all that to say that there are benefits to each of the options stated above. There might be data showing that an option might be statistically better than another, but the choice one makes is really one’s personal choice that must be respected.