How I sometimes surprise myself....

Today is just a day of reflection. As I walked through Russel Square today, which is a park around my house I ventured into this cute little area, where I decided to take a little break and just take in my surroundings. I sat one with nature looking at this amazing place that I now live and thinking about the amazing opportunity that I have by being here. I know that coming to London was not an easy decision for me. I mean I did leave a lot behind like my family, and the amazing friends that I have made throughout the years, however, I think that as I sit here in this park, I feel very fortunate and very blessed to be here. I feel that although I have given up a lot, that in the end I will also gain a lot. I know that it takes a lot of courage to do something like this, so when I am feeling sad and blue thinking about how lonely I am, I need to focus on that courage and that drive that brought me all the way across the ocean in search of a new and better life. I do not know what the future will hold, but for right now, I only see an amazing road ahead of me.

Choice....power or complication

So today I had a very interesting discussion of the role of choices in our everyday lives. As Americans we have always had choices, and rights, we have the right to chose what doctor to see, we can chose to carry a handgun, we can chose how much we want to expose of our bodies, well the list goes on....However, there are many people in this world that do not have the right to chose what doctor they go do be it free or paid, they cannot expose skin because doing so will lead to persecution, and finally in many places there is definitely no choice to own a gun, that is out of the question.
Being an American I never had to worry about choices as I mentioned earlier, nor have I ever thought about choosing things such as doctor's, etc. Recently I have moved to London, obviously a westernized developed country like my own, and a few of us started the discussion of doctor choices, now let me remind you that in England everyone has a right to health care, but only recently have they been given the right to chose who they want to see, here in England they are experimenting with giving Britons CHOICES....Imagine that...Now what do people have to say about that...Well here is what they had to say, what are they nuts...why do I have to chose anything. This only causes more problems and complications, now I have to chose. You would think that being given a choice one would be happy but apparently not. Its like no matter what you have no one is ever happy.
This brings me to the conundrum of the day being that we have choices, are we better off, some may think that we are, but if people of like minded societies feel burdened by choices, is it that we have too many freedoms, or is it, that people are just scared to actually chose for fear that by making a choice whatever action is taken can bring on unwanted consequences....I guess the jury is out...what do you all think????