Free will choice

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The other day I was watching a short video on youtube of Swami Beyondananda (http://wakeuplaughing.com/index.php) where he says something to the effect of “If you choose to be miserable, you can do that too! Whatever makes you happy...”

It is a nice illustration of on how many things in life we can make a free will choice.

We often have no say in what kind of challenges we encounter on our personal path, yet we most definitely have a lot of free will choice on how we handle them!
And the fact of the matter is that we are never given a learning opportunity by the Universe that we cannot handle. That we cannot find the solution to, one way or another. How we get to that solution; how we handle the situation is a matter of choice.

It brings up any number of questions... Like, do we shirk our responsibility; reject the ‘growth opportunity’ (from a spiritual perspective), and run away from it? Or do we handle it as best we can? Do we let it take over our lives and allow it to drag us down? Or do we place it into perspective?

It is the choices we make that lead us onward on our path.
And for pretty much all of us it is true that looking back over say the past five years or so, some choices we made were great, while other times we probably would have been able to do things differently; given 20/20 hindsight.
As we ~ from a spiritual perspective ~ are creating everything that happens in our own lives; our choices get us ‘into trouble’ at times, and ‘out of trouble’ on other times. In the process we learn our life lessons. And we move onward on our path.

Free will choice, therefore, is a great mechanism for living our lives. Free will choice is a fantastic tool for us to use ~ and we should use it every chance we get. Not only to make our decisions, but also in asking questions. Free will choice puts us in a position ~ is our tool ~ to gain all the information we need to make our ‘free will choice decision’...

And ultimately we have the choice to live our lives being positive, optimistic, and happy as we continue on our individual life paths ~ or rather be negative, pessimistic, and miserable.
As the Swami says: “Whatever makes you happy”.
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