Asif Khan Inc.

Choice

Have we ever had a choice to make a choice?

Since the moment we attain a conscious understanding of things and a perceptible sense of our surroundings, our minds are conditioned to assimilate the concept of making a choice through our earliest memories of getting the wrong ones in place. And to drill things down to a simplistic level, there is always either the Right choice or the Wrong choice – absolute dichromatism. Which as a concept starts going a bit haywire once you start scaling the alleys of time and are encountered with hazed out boundaries permeating colors to a muted monochrome, devoid of comprehension. Although some cases also report hugely psychedelic riots of multichrome – the incomprehensibility factor remaining constant though.

All this however, has resulted in our minds being conditioned to such an extent that we have actually forgotten that all this is just a farce to cover up one of the finest illusions we are under the influence of throughout our lives. And the illusion I talk about here is the fact that we feel we have the option of exercising a free will.

To illustrate, you reach a T junction on the road and are faced with the option of turning either right or left (this is assuming you have no particular destination). You turn, say left, and tell yourself immediately that faced with options you made the choice of turning left and not turning right. And during this process, we tend to forget that we never had the option, for we always had to turn left since that was the way in which our time and space sketch was supposed to move. This is the illusion. You may want to question this, and what I have to say is just that there certainly is a manner in which things are ordained to occur. Its a bit tough to comprehend that this universe exists just as a matter of chances and choices.

And if existence is a matter of choice, then we aren’t left with a choice either way, are we?