Choices

This is something that I tend to be really, and I mean really big on. I believe that everyone makes choices and the fact of the matter of the subject is you can be steered in a direction, but no one can force you to make that choice. Like they say you an lead a cow to water, but you cannot make her drink. I believe this applies to people too.
This topic was kind of brought up with me tonight when I was chilling at a friends house. His roommate was talking about his choices and the fact that everyone at our school tends to think harshly of him for the things he has done. The truth of the matter is no one is perfect, thus some people are working on things others are not and some people are not working on anything and so on and so forth. What these imperfections lead to are the choices we all make. For example talking bad about someone behind their back is a choice. For those people who are LDS a mission is a choice. Some may disagree with me, but it is true. Me even going to college was a choice that I really do not regret.
All of these choices can lead to different directions in your life. They help you to learn and sometimes you have to live a little to learn. That is what life is all about and so these choices we all make are just simply a part of the process of learning. To me these make life beautiful and it is wrong to judge a person based on the choices they make. Especially in the past. The deeper you go back into a person's past then the deeper you may go that you find they may have done something wrong, but they have changed.
You also have to remember that everyone is entitled to their opinion and thus you have no right to judge a person based on something they say. The reason for this is there may be factors underlying their opinion that you may not understand. Thus sometimes it is better to ask why they think something than to simply get mad about their opinion. The reason for this being it is their choice and as skewed as someone's opinion may be there is always an underlying factor to it. Thus an opinion can be seen as a choice that they may have made and so it is better not to simply tell someone they are wrong, but understand why they think that.