choices and the life we make... (taken from my friendster blog)

would you rather be rich but ugly, or poor but beautiful? would you rather be ugly but intelligent, or beautiful but stupid? would you rather be intelligent but hated, or stupid but loved? would you rather be hated but successful, or loved but a failure? would you rather be successful but not respected, or a failure but respected? there are endless options that we have in this journey called life... so many things to choose from... so many reasons to justify our choices... this is why we are called humans... because we have the power to rationalize... we have the power to think and justify... but do we always make the right choice? of course not... i myself have had so many wrong choices in life... but i was never ashamed of these choices, it may not be the right one in the eyes of other people, it may not be proper, it may not be the best, but since i've committed those choices already, there's no turning back, i have to live with it now... i have to accept the fact that these choices, be it good or bad, are all mine, and so no one is to be blamed for it but me, and i admit i have suffered from my bad choices, so much... but life moves on... it is not a question of the past, because it's all done... nor the future, because no one can tell what it has at stake... what matters is the present, because this is what we live by... and yes, life is what we make it...