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| Choices and age |
| Written by Division by Zero |
| Tuesday, 04 October 2011 09:32 |
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A while ago I posted a movie about the paradox of choice. Being able to choose gives us humans freedom. On the other hand choices bring along fear. Before choosing there are multiple possibilities. To choose means to loose one or more possibilities. The fear that choice brings with it is the fear of loss. The one who chooses can also experience grieve on the possibilities that aren't possible anymore. In our society being able to choose is utterly important. This is the reason we value being young. Being young means that all your options are still open. Your life still has to be lived. Some people have a hard time growing old. This is because this implies the loss of choice. Recently I've read Man's search for Meaning by Victor Frankl. This book really was an eye-opener for me. His vision on this subject is as follows: "What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has He any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future which is in store for him? 'No, thank you,' he will think. 'Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things of which cannot inspire envy.'" |
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin




