The Dissatisfaction Of Choice

By M. Gatlianne

Have you ever pondered the thought of your dissatisfaction in life and how your choices led to that dissatisfaction? Have you ever struggled with wanting to “re-write history,” so to speak? I believe that life happens just as it is meant to and that because it happened the way it did – there was no other way. There were no other choices you could have made in those instances because the choices you made were the only ones to get you exactly in the here and now you are. Trust that.

However, see how being dissatisfied with certain aspects of your life can lead to different choices now and in the future. See that expectation plays a much bigger role than dissatisfaction. We feel dissatisfied when our expectations aren’t met and when we aren’t in full acceptance of our current situations and surroundings. We fall into this dissatisfaction and even tip the scale of disappointment as we are living the human condition. We cannot go back and change our choices, change the way we did things. Instead we can look back at the choices we made and where they led, be grateful for that and ask ourselves what current choices we’re making.

If there are aspects of your life you are currently not happy with then why are you making choices that continue to drive that unhappiness? Why are you not accepting what is? Why are you accepting unhappiness? But it is a great irony – for you can choose happiness regardless of your circumstance so why then are you not choosing acceptance and happiness over dissatisfaction? Ah yes, you are living the human condition and it is in the human condition that the soul grows. Your human self falls into the realm of unhappiness and dissatisfaction while your soul calls out for change in the background.

Looking back at the choices you’ve made in life it’s easy to see areas where you could have taken a different route. You could have ended a relationship sooner, or never ventured into it in the first place. You could have moved to location A instead of location B. You could have said yes to this or no to that. I call this the “might have been wonders.”

Many of us have the “might have been wonders,” a sad little mind disease that causes us to think back upon our life and speculate on “What might have been?” and “What if?” though we know very well there’s no sense in pondering such silly things because there’s certainly not a thing we can do about what has passed and worrying over it only takes us away from our present life.

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