The Choice
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EVERY moment in life, we are faced with a choice.
Which should command our preference--the demands of our job or
The duties to our family?
If there is a board meeting today at the same hours that our son
Graduates from school, where should we go -- to the boardroom or
to the graduation ceremony?
If we have to make a very important presentation tomorrow, so as
to advance our career, but our wife/husband says she/he has to see the
doctor on a suspicion of an ailment, which appointment should we keep?
These are the daily battles of conscience we have to wage,
trying to keep a balance between our responsibility to earn a
living and our opportunity to live a life.
And our choices invariably reveal who we really are.
Our preferences indicate our true character.
Our priorities are the best indicators of our real identity.
What profits success?
I know that many of us out there would go for career on the
pretense that after all, we are doing all these for the family.
Many of us, dear readers, would rather become outstanding
employees, model personnel instead of being doting parents
Many of us would opt to perform exceedingly well in the office
even if you work 12 to 16 hours a day, going home only to change
clothes or catch a few hours of sleep.
But what for? At the end of the day, what have you accomplished?
What profits a highly successful professional or wealthy
businessperson if ultimately, he/she loses his/her family, wrecks his/her
marriage or dishonors the name he/she will leave to his/her children?
What has a rich accomplished if he/she has built a fortune and
founded conglomerates of highly profitable companies and yet
drives his own wife/husband to vices or infidelity, the children to drugs
and delinquency and himself/herself to spiritual decay and total burnout?
What matters most?
Look around you. The evidence is overwhelming and irreversible.
Families are shattered.
Marriages are broken.
Lives are reduced to utter emptiness.
Even as man advances in wealth and success, he deteriorates on
the basic standards of joy, peace and serenity. As we all compete
and struggle for power and possessions, we often neglect what
really matters most. In our insatiable mania for supremacy over
the rest, we often forget the most important things in life.
I will respect your choice. But as for me, there is nothing like FAMILY.
to be continued.
