The modern world is full of choices. We choose what we wear, we choose what we eat, we choose what we watch and consume, everything is a "choice." But what happens in our brains when something comes along in which we have no choice? We have to force ourselves to do the thing, grin and bear it if you will. One of my kids struggles so hard with this. It's always a fight to get them to take meds, brush teeth, or clean up the room. Because for so long they've been allowed the "choices" of everything else, it feels like even these things should be a "choice." I have no solution to the problem. I just need to complain. We, as parents, followed along with society and allowed for greater freedom and choice, but I am finding it to be problematic at this point. I have slowly been removing choices that I have control over (no more on-demand media for instance) to help them to see and recognize the reality that sometimes "we don't have a choice." Talking to a friend and realized that it's not just my kids, it's me too. I have some things that I really should just make myself sit down and do, but "I don't want to." The problem with this allure of choice in things is that we can quickly find ourselves pushing things off until the effort to make ourselves complete the task becomes more than that of the task itself and spirals into deeper chaos. --- Tags: #reflection