The Options

Human life is set on earth in such a way that it has no choice except to live with options. In other words, human life is characterized by options. According to me, there are two options: Fundamental and Spontaneous Options. The former is an option chosen out of reason and will which will eventually lead to happiness. This option does not make life a bed of roses. Rather, it is a mixture of good and bad, joy and sorrow, love and hate, life and death. The fundamental option helps one to live within these tensions so that it will contribute to the holistic and healthy development of the individual. The later is chosen out of instinct. It is seeking for momentary pleasures, temporary happiness. It guarantees happiness but for a short time. This option makes human being always to crave for something more in life just as animals and birds.

There is good and bad, superior and inferior in the above options. Interestingly, human being has the capacity and power to choose either of the options as per mood, mode and context of life. In other words, human life is a mixture of fundamental and spontaneous options. As for me, this is healthy. The real danger is when a person solely opts for the spontaneous option all the time no matter what the context demands.