I am currently reading this book called "Shantaram" by Gregory David Roberts, the first paragraph of this book blew me away and I think that it is worth thinking about.
"It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instance, while I was chained to the wall and being tortured. I realized, somehow, through the screaming in my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody, helplessness, I was still free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them. It does not sound like much, I know. But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when it's all you've got, that freedom is a universe of possibility. And the choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life."
-Gregory David Roberts
As I start to think about my life and the new chapters that will come, I think that the ultimate choice that I have is simply, Freedom. What will you do with it?
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