Choice Abundance

I am so thankful for and am understanding just how precious the Gift of Agency is. All around us we are allowed the opportunity to choose. As a baby, so many things were chosen for us but as we grow older, we are given the chance to choose more and more things. Even in the womb we could choose to kick our leg or suck our thumb or roll around. As a parent I have become very aware of this and often have to remind myself that it is not my job to choose everything for my children. While there are some things that I would choose very differently on, a lot of the things that I would worry about, just don't matter: whether they comb their hair or their clothes match. My son wore two different kinds of shoes to school while one of his was lost under the bed. At first I was like, What? Why don't you just wear the matching pair, but he liked the other kind better :Ptongue emoticon OK then. Issue to worry about? No. His choice? Yes! 
People all around us are demonstrating things that we want to emulate or reject. There is not a moment that goes by that we are not choosing something. We are even choosing our thoughts, unceasingly. We choose what to DO with our time, what to Watch, Listen to, Eat, Wear, Move or Sit still, Take action or simply Think about it. This Agency thing is a big deal! What about the people who are forced to do certain things, like in other countries? Do they get to choose? They get to choose their Attitude and the way they look at or think about things. Maybe like a person in jail. Their freedom of action most likely got them there, but what they Choose to do with the situation is the key. More choices. I now appreciate more, my abundance of choices...