Choice

Choice

We were taught

that choice is the highest

freedom.

Democracy gives us leaders to

choose.

Capitalism gives us products to

choose.

A long list of options

is offered as the trophy of a

free mind.

But choice is the symptom

of a divided mind.

Choice appears

only when the room is dark.

In darkness we hesitate,

calculate,

fear the wrong step.

Left or right?

What if I fall?

Turn on the light

and the choice disappears.

We do not debate

whether to walk through the

open door

or into the wall.

We see,

and we move.

Action becomes seamless.

No hesitation.

No internal war.

Every choice we make

buries the alternatives.

When we choose to be "good,"

we must suppress anger,
greed,

the darker impulses.

The mind becomes a battlefield.

Choice splits us in two.

A fragmented mind

is a confused mind.

The marketplace offers

a thousand brands,

a thousand lifestyles,

whispering:

"Choose, and you will be free."

It is the oldest trick.

They keep us busy

selecting the colour of our

prison bars

so we never look up

and see the cage.

We have mistaken

the liberty of picking our own

master

for freedom itself.

True freedom

is not the power to choose.

It is the clarity

in which choice becomes

unnecessary.