Do we Always have a Choice...!!!

I was watching this usual action flick on my laptop wherein the lead actress, oops!!! lead female actor kept spreading this message which said "We Always Have a Choice". No wonder by the end of the movie I was convinced that we always have a choice. But when the hangover of the movie was gone I gave it a second thought. Do we Always have a Choice? Really!!! Does that imply we are never option less. Well!! I did a detailed analysis on this, spoke to various people but what I got at the end were perceptions and not facts.

Now, when I am writing on this, trust me I really do not know whether we always have a choice or not. However, I have identified some facts about this which are universal and pervasive. First and foremost is that each and every choice has a cost attached to it. Now, we tend to avoid the choices completely which have a cost which is beyond our scope and we end up saying that We did not have a choice. Having said that, Do we really have a choice all the time? As I mentioned earlier I do not know the answer. Most of the times, when we take certain decisions and if those decisions do not produce good results we end up saying or realizing that there were other options as well. So why is it that we forget to identify other options at the very beginning. Is it because we do not want to deviate or is it because we are too stereotype to venture into unexpected plains? or maybe its because we are careless. The approach of decision making requires one to analyze all the options and then to chose one. However, how many of us can swear on our mums that we do that all the time? Most of the time we just go by our gut feeling. It also depends upon the kind of risk involved. People generally tend to think twice and identify more and more choices when a lot is at stake and vice versa.

What if Ramalinga Raju, the man behind the decline of Satyam Computers comes and says he did not have a choice. How many of us would agree? I do not think any of the readers of this blog would!!!

Now, What if the government of Gujarat says that they had a choice pertaining to the Earthquake which shook the foundations of this state in 2001. How many of us would believe? I think None!!!

Well, it implies that if the problem can be solved by some or the other means irrespective of the solution being under the scope of the concerned person, we say that there was a choice. If the problem can not be solved by any means then we say that there was no choice.

My Dearest Friend's younger sister succumbed to Swine Flu on 28th Sep, 4 days and game over. She had nothing but just mild fever and she was taken to the hospital in the afternoon, by evening she was moved to the ICU and she never came back. My Friend Neha, still can't believe that her sis is no more. Did neha have a choice? Offcourse she had, and that was to pray to God, Alas!!! this choice was not a very good choice or maybe she did not have a choice at all.

With brimming eyes, when we see our near and dear ones go, we crave for one single choice, but we do not get any. This is one situation wherein I feel that we have no choice at all, else we do have a choice but all depends upon our intensity, the risk involved and our dedication to give our best which determines the number of choices we identify to tackle various situations.