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If everything happens for a reason
Do you ever wonder
What causes one child
To develop into a sage
While another grows up
To minister to the needy?

I wonder whether
Those who think themselves 'fatalists'
Review the CHOICES
They'd DECIDEDLY made
EACH time they approached a fork in the road
And CHOSE one path over another

Just as you and I
Had once been babes in the wood
With no clue as to where fate AND choice
Might take each of us next
Wasn't the same true of
Socrates and Mother Theresa, too?

If quality of life depends upon
How we CHOOSE to handle fate
Then aren't the stepping stones
Which direct EACH person's path
Determined by the combination of
Choice AND fate?

When it comes time
To accept or reject accountability
For mistakes in judgment
Can you tell when defensiveness, insecurity
Revisionist memory or memory lapse
May have influenced YOUR sense of clarity?

How deep is YOUR fear
of acknowledging
The DARK SIDE
Of
YOUR
Mind?

Though some fear their dark sides
While others do not
In truth
The dark side lurks within us ALL
And sneaks out
From time to time

And that's it for today
Because
I'm feeling less like an insight-lit Annie
And more like a darkly lumbering Edgar Allan Poe
So I'm CHOOSING to flip the switch toward
The light side of my spirit, right now! :)