“Who do you want to be?”
– Alex Patton, age 15
My
son Alex asked the question “Who do you want to be?” to his eight-year-old
cousin Jake as he handed over a video game controller. It was up to Jake to
decide: Mario, Luigi, Wario, Princess Peach or one of the 50 other
characters?
We
too get to decide who we want to be, but our choices are limitless. In many
ways, we hold the controller to our own lives. Yet often I feel as if I am a
victim of circumstance, not realizing that I often choose the
circumstance—either by saying yes to something I shouldn’t have or by not
saying no. Even when we don’t choose what happens, we do get to choose how we
react to it.
Whom do you want to be today?
What do you need to do to make that happen?
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