Choose your own adventure

I make careful and confident choices

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When I was a boy I loved when the book mobile would come to our school.  It was like a library on wheels and when I had the chance to check out a book I would often pick out a "choose your own adventure" book.  The stories are usually a mystery or adventure where as the story progresses you encounter a situation where a choice has to be made.  I liked how it felt as if I was in the story because of the chance to determine which way the story would go.

Depending on the choice you make you are directed to a specific page and the story continues. Sometimes the choices lead you to a happy and heroic ending, but other choices have disastrous consequences.  When I read the books and did not like the outcomes I would sometimes skip to the back of the book, find the ending I liked, and then work backwards to make the right choices and get the happy ending.




In my life I get to choose my own adventure, but there is no cheating backwards to get the results I want. My task is to learn to make choices I am confident with regardless of what the outcome may be, intended or otherwise. If I approach each choice thoughtfully and make decisions that are true to my authentic self, I can maintain my path of personal truth and learn from whatever consequences those choices bring.