Choose damn it!

Wrote this in the train a few days back:

Law and all the rules that we place over us are but figments of our statutes. Most people are aware of this in fact. We all realize that the values that we possess are according to the standards which we are taught or a result of our environment and the interaction wenhave with it. Eventually, as we live our lives, we have a set of rules that we adhere to. All that is obvious but what we probably don’t realize is that it is always a question of choice. This is to say that we always choose what we hold on to. Sure...we all agree and realize it but it is larger and stronger than what we probably think. Or maybe some of us just haven’t given it a lot of thought and hence its lingering somewhere in the back of our minds...a place most shrinks would call the “subconscious”. Wherever it may be in the mind, it is inevitable that whatever we believe in, hold true to, adhere, disregard, detest, adore is based on NOTHING but choice. Choice is the result of will. We make a choice as a reaction to our will. We want something so we choose to get that something. It is no more complicated than that.

We constantly consider our thoughts, morals, beliefs, actions to be something of a larger source. That it is always for or from something greater or beyond us. If not so, one would consider it to be as a result of another action, or an inspired thought, or granted truth and of course not forgetting everything else around us. Basically, there is always a source for everything, regardless if we acknowledge it or not, we tell ourselves that everything comes from something and if we don’t know what it is, we use all that we have to come up with something that fits. Leaving something in our minds without a reason or a source would make us distressed and we are ever searching for a reason or a source. And once we find a reason or a source, we claim it as the truth. Something isn’t the truth when there is no reason or source that defines it.

But here’s the beauty of it, if we choose to believe in something, we never fail to find a reason or source behind ANYTHING. In a nutshell, if we want it we have. Yeah, thats exactly what all of us have at the back of heads somewhere, if i want something ill get it somehow, all i gotta do is find a way, a source, a reason and i have it. Hence, anything we do, say, think, believe is a matter of will. If one wants to believe in something, one will and rest assured that one will fine a reason or a source that he agrees upon which will finally evolve to a truth he holds on to.

The sad part about all this is, we give in to the power or that reason to dictate our will. We never allow ourselves to cut the crap of searching for reason or a source to justify or define whatever we do, say, think, believe. We don’t realize that after all that ‘soul searching’ or ‘deep thought’ it all comes down to YOU. What YOU want. We go on a journey looking for a destination. We never let ourselves go on a journey without a destination. The destination doesn’t matter because it is wherever u make it to be. It is never a road that arrives at a point. Its just a ROAD. Just choose where u want to stop. If u choose to continue, then get up and walk again. The destination is nowhere and everywhere hence anywhere. Choose.

Since charbs is working on prostitution and the laws that bind it, i’ve read JUST some stuff on the philosophical, social and political aspects of prostitution. Its amazing how people continue to struggle to figure out wether or not to legislate it. Mainly because they’re not sure if they like it or not. Nobody really knows what they want to do with it. They can’t decide if they should or should not want it. But as time goes by, people ‘evolve’ and come up with new ideas and reasons to accept it or reject it which leads to another amendment of the law. We can accept pornography in the most part, well because many people have found a reason or a justification for it. But does that really matter? Anything that started in this world was accepted proportionally to the amount of change it will cause in the environment. If there’s a big change ppl find it hard to accept it...why? because the source or reason of that change is harder to grasp. When that happens it creates the same effect of darkness where we get stricken by fear and just freeze. When things are more subtle, we tend to be able to swallow it with ease. Prostitution, like many other ‘taboo’ has the same effect on ppl as darkness. Although it has been around for so so long, it is something that most people can’t accept openly. Simply because we do not choose to. For those who do accept it, they’ve chosen to accept it only after having found a suitable reason to support it. But if you look at it,reason doesn’t really amount to anything. It is just a means to an end. Since we choose such a means, we are bound to its consequences.

Anyways, it proves that there isn’t anything behind everything. In fact, everything is nothing so u can make it anything you want.