Choices

The other day a colleague told me that life was unfortunately so much about regrets, about choices one could have made differently, about wasted time and about priorities one could have set differently. I looked at him in disbelief; I honestly didn't understand what he was talking about.

They say that making choices uses up your psychic energy. Studies in food stores have shown that if you give consumers too much choice of a particular item they go away utterly confused and don't buy anything. Similarly, as you go through the day having to make one choice after the other, you are literally using up your available will-power reservoir and by the end of the day all you can do is to zone out with the help of alcohol and the TV or the Internet. 

Again, I really cannot relate to these observations. Somehow for a Tao traveler choices are generally effortless along the Way, and there are certainly no regrets. Whenever you have to make an important choice, your personal symbol that sways the result one way or another conveniently shows up. This does not mean that you don't make mistakes, but you even when you make them, you know deep inside that everything happens for the right reason. Regrets don't make much sense because it daunts on you that you live in the best of all worlds as far as your soul development is concerned. For a Tao traveler, every choice along the Way is nothing but a confirmation that you are connected and that no matter what, the sun is always smiling on you.