The Right CHOICE

As I jot down this post today, I have made a choice to write this post.  I made a choice to get up open my laptop, and start putting my thoughts on my blog. I could have made a hundred other choices. I could have stayed in bed. I could have taken a walk, or turned on the music, or gone out somewhere. But I CHOSE this activity, just as you CHOSE to read this post.

Lately I realized the significance of choices.  Choices do have a far reaching outcome in our lives. We try to categorize choices as right, wrong, clever, foolish…. but are not sure which was right and which was wrong; which was foolish and which was clever. Sometimes our right choice in the long run might prove to be wrong, and the wrong one right. 

The magical word CHOICE started haunting me after interacting with the French family of Mr. Mignont Damein who stayed couple of days at my place.  They were a family of six of which four are children aged between 13 and five.

 The Damien Family

They were on a 10-month vacation that will be ending in May, away from home in Paris traversing Asia.  The French couple have taken long leave from office.  Mr. Damien is a company executive with Samsonite, and Mrs. Damien is into advertising.  Their children carry their school in an I-pad.  Course materials are accessed online and are permitted from school to do their term exams online. 

The eldest of the kids appeared for her last exam while vacationing in Goa.   Mr. Damien says he can’t remember the last time he had spent so much and such good time together with his family, uninterrupted by deadlines and unrealistic schedules at office. 

On leaving Paris I handed over to my office not only my car key, but  my Black Berry as well; say Mr. Damien with a sigh of relief.  They told him he could keep the  B’berry – ‘I told them, no, thank you’ added Mr, Damien with a grin.   The company executive from Paris says he has been able to do very well without a phone and the Internet. 

The kids were busy learning the lesson in the afternoon while Mr. Damien was relaxing in the plantations adjacent to the cottages ignoring the slight drizzle. Without the hefty pay packets, B’Berry and Internet he looked really relaxed and contented.  In a couple of days he will be into his next destination Sri Lanka. His CHOICE whether right or wrong, was really courageous- a CHOICE which most of us couldn’t even dream of.

                                                             Myself with Mr. Damien

This post would be incomplete without mentioning about Shivya Nath, the co-founder of India Untravelled. (indiauntravelled.com)  Shivya graduated from Singapore and took up a plum position with Singapore Tourism. But her innate want to be a  travel writer and glob trot resulted in chucking her job and flying back to India. She now blogs at The Shooting Star and is a travel writer for international guide books like Lonely Planet. In additional she is a social media strategist who aggressivelypopularise rural tourism and in her leisure shows up TV commercials for international brands like Dove.

As I conclude this post, my dear one’s who have made a CHOICE to read this post; Have you made CHOICES that makes you happy or have you been staggering for  the whole life making CHOICES that make others happy.  At least from now make CHOICES that will make you happy and contented.

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