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Viewing Personal Choice as a Right & a Responsibility | Carrying the Burden to Choose

Writer's picture: Rachelle InnocentRachelle Innocent

Updated: Jan 30

Each of us carry a superpower and that’s the power to choose.


It is important to get clear on what influences the small and big choices that we make.


We need to value the responsibility and weight inherent in being able to choose, so that we equip ourselves with the tools that protect our power to choose.


So that when our autonomy in decision-making comes under attack, we’re readily equipped to stand our ground.

 

Many of us are cavalier about personal agency, because it is only in extreme circumstances where any of us feel as though our independence is under threat. Decisions are being made every day that carry an impact to our capacity to choose. Yet still, many of us are indifferent to the implications when our choices are limited or completely taken away.


Who is threatened by your power to choose, differently?


We often think that the world is so self-absorbed that no one outside of our immediate circles really reflect on the choices that we make as we navigate our daily lives. We allow ourselves the luxury in assuming that our choices are insignificant.


Without serious reflection on the choice matrix that governs the distinction between public and private choice, it’s hard to recognize when our private choices, are the ones being encroached upon in public arenas.


Limiting choice infringes on an element that is intrinsic to being conscious, living, breathing beings. Beings that have a remarkable capacity to make complex and life altering choices.

The extent that we capitalize and leverage our agency, drives the quality of our lives, our growth potential, and our ability to make an impact on others.


Choice is as much an inherent right to protect, it is a duty and a responsibility to uphold.

For ourselves in our private lives, sure.


But also on behalf of the collective societies that birthed us. We all feel it when the matrix of choice is disrupted at a societal level. Yet for whatever reason, few of us do much of anything protect and safeguard the choices that were never and should have been subject to public opinion to begin.

 

We all have the power to choose – and there will come a time where we’ll each need to choose if whether we are part of the solution or part of the problem. There is no room for personal complacency in a political climate that is comfortable waging war on choice. The choices that you make for yourself, for your family, and for your life.


So maybe it’s time we choose to wake up.


Wake up to the reality that it is up to each and every one of us to establish boundaries that protect our choice. We each have a responsibility to get hyper focused about the decisions that fall within the private arena.


While our decisions can certainly keep the interests of others in mind, it most certainly cannot be to our own detriment.


Even if our personal decision-making potential is under threat, it doesn’t make our choices up for grabs.


Protect your power to choose, your quality of life depends on it.



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