I choose. I chose.

I read this fan fiction that a good friend of mine finally decided to finish a couple of days back, entitled Five Days. To summarize the story, the guy finally realized that the feeling is mutual with regard to the girl who had been pinning for him for like three years. The conflict in the story is that he realizes it too late in the day and as "punishment" for his density, he gets to see the love of his life die before his very eyes. But since hope springs eternal and we're talking about true love here, the author decided to give the guy five days to spend with the girl. So the question that played in our (readers...My friend has a following you see) mind is whether the guy or rather love can change what has happened? If there is truth in the saying that love can move mountains; in the story's case, one that goes tick tock. The end wasn't want I expected, being, admittedly, a sucker for happily ever after ending. But I think it was how it should have ended. Time isn't really something to tamper with after all. For just one itsy bitsy run in its fabric can spell more than a trillion consequences. The girl still dies but the guy learns his lesson. He changed for the better and slightly bitter cause he (assuming here cause she really didn't clearly state if he did move on...As fall in love again) is still somewhat still tied to the past and the memories of their five days. Anyway, how she ended her story reminded of a poem that came to me while I was walking the shores of Bora a few years back, the waves lapping at my feet washing away the footprints that I've left behind. May be its was the way that sea rushed to shore only to be drawn back just as quickly or the people I had for company that morning, or just the whole beauty of the place at that hour...Still not sure why it is this poem that came to me that day but it did and I'd like to share it with you guys...

Return To Me

Like the thousand times

You crashed along the shore

So must I pass through

Life’s many doors

Like the million sands

You shifted through out time

So must I figure out

Life’s many rhymes

Like the eternity

That you have returned to the sea

So must I

Perpetually return to me

At the end of the day, I have only one person to face and answer to--Me. That whatever happens, it is I who makes what my life is. Destiny and Fate may play their hands in my life, but I have the free will to decide when, where and how they will interfere. I have that choice. I can make that choice. I believe that there is really no situation where you have no choice. There is always a choice. And when you say you don't have a choice, you made your choice not to make one.

Life is a choice. So choose to live it!