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Write about the importance of choice.
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Owninowned in Poetry & Free Verse

Intentional Chance

You can't really choose, events unfold and you react to them according to what you have programmed yourself to do. There are no conscious or unconscious choices, just different ways and voices used to tell a story. You don't get to decide, you get to analyse, through a limited perspective, the variety of possible outcomes. Choice is not important itself, the value of "choice" lies in the sacrifice that you are willing to make, what you are willing to neglect and leave to "chance". But you don't really choose, you just narrow your perspective of hopes and intentions. Choice is therefor just a result of the chaos of chance that you immerse into, when you "decide" to focus on something and neglect all other possible combinations of outcomes. It's not something that can be quatified, not even on the scale of importance, it's a marginal value, an attept to achieve a predictable result, deceiving yourself that something can be repeated, predetermined, manufactured. Choice is of no real importance, it's your intensity of intention that can be important or decisive in how chance unfolds.

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