The Adjustment Bureau

All we have are the choices we make.

Every Monday night the Power Course has bonus movie night. I play a movie after class and everyone who stays to watch it gets a bonus mark. Sometimes we talk about it. Sometimes we just go home.

Once each semester we go out for a movie rather than stay at the college. Last night was Movie Out Night and we chose to see the Adjustment Bureau.

It was good choice because it is a movie that is all about choice.

Free will.
vs.
Destiny.

Fate.
vs.
Choice.

Are these opposites?
Or is Choice how we fulfill our destiny?
Have we chosen our fate using our free will?

We think of Life as being lived in minutes and hours and days and years.
But I think it is helpful to consider that Life is lived in increments of Choice.

It is not as easy to measure as time, but I think it is more meaningful.

Choice by choice. Decision by decision.
Even when we let habit make our choices,
or when we let other people make our choices,
even when we make no choice in a situation,
they are still Choices.

Just because we don't make them does not mean they aren't choices.
They are still the increments of our lives.


Many of our choices are made by others using power.

Others try to create an experience of control, influence or seduction.
They do that to control, influence or seduce a choice we are about to make.

The target of power is always a Choice.
The purpose of power is to impact Choice.
It is what power is for - to control, influence or seduce our choice to say, think or do something.

Power is about choice.

Overcoming power is to make a choice inspite of the experience of power. It is about making a choice that you have decided is best for you regardless of the efforts of others to change that choice.

Making choices deliberately and actively - every day - with passion and conviction - is how life is lived and power is defeated.

Choice is all we have.

All I have are the choices I make.

So today, after you read this, don't let habit or power make your choice.
Make a real choice.
And live.