Life is a just series of opportunities

We rarely think of ourselves as the sum of the random acts and decisions that we make in life, most of the times unaware and completely unprepared. And yet we are… It goes from our choice of school, of career, of people to accompany us along the way, to the small things - a book we’ve read, a stranger we’ve met, a chat we’ve had. It is for us to pay attention and choose carefully in the moment, never knowing how much that would matter many years down the line. We’re thrown in life as a blank canvas, bombarded with an infinite number of opportunities and choices that we need to navigate through with absolutely no instructions or guidance or even a sense of their importance. How would you feel if you know when you were 12 that the book you’ve just picked for a casual reading would become the pillar of your principles in life? Or that the person you decided to call for help in an uncomfortable situation in your 20s would become your life’s partner? Or that the summer job you took in your second year of Uni would change the course of your entire career? Or that a message that you’ve misread will be the one that would save you from a life of misery and toxicity? Or that the random person that you’ve accidentally met and chatted with in an elevator would be decisive for the place you live in, the job that you perform, the things that you’d learn. Or… or… or… It’s like a tree of infinite choices, each choice that we make in every moment leading to another infinite number of choices and scenarios. And the irony of it is that we are not even aware. The real decisions that shape our lives are not the ones we think and make consciously after a lot of consideration but those that we make in a split of a second in random situations.