In my elementary, high school and
even college years, my most favourite type of exam is the multiple choice type.
This is because for sure the answers are already laid in front of me and all I have
to do is to choose and if I did not study—to make a lucky choice. My life also
is governed with an unending choices. Every step I take I am confronted with a
choice—to choose to step or not to step. From the time I open my eyes after
sleeping I have to make a choice—to get up from bed or to remain cuddling with
my pillows. Even at the time of eating, a lot of act of choosing happens. From
the decision to eat or not to eat and to choose on what set of menu to eat.
Everything is a choice.
Our
life is determined by our choices. Confucius once said, “People's lives are the
result of the choices they make-or fail to make”. Each of us, as we live our
lives, the path that we decided to take is not arbitrary, it is our choice,
yet, in every choice, a consequence awaits us. That is how our choices
determine the kind of path that we want to take in life. All people, whatever
their circumstances, make the choices on which their lives depend.
My seminary formation is also
governed with choices—from the very moment I decided to enter in the college
seminary in our diocese is an act of choosing. Even the act of continuing my
seminary formation in the formal theological level is another manifestation of
how choices govern my life. William Shakespeare in “Hamlet” made an immortal
line that perjures even today and perhaps in the coming tomorrows—“to be or not
to be: that is the question”. The image and the entirety of our being depends
on how we want this being to be.
As a Roman Catholic Christian I
also that in the creation of man by God being an “Imago Dei” is the foundation
of these choices. We have choices because we are gifted with the freedom to
choose. If we are not free, then we will not have any choice at all. We are
free because according to 2 Corinthians 3:17 “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and
where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom”.
We are free to choose but in
every choice lies a consequence. That is why we have to be mature enough to be
accountable to our choices. As the Galatians 5:13 says “You, my brothers, were
called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature;
rather, serve one another in love”.
We seminarians call the seminary
as our home, yet it is always our choice to stay in the place we call our home
or to leave. To be good in the seminary or to be wild as much as how we want it
to be. To cooperate or not to cooperate with our seminary formation or, to do
or not to do what we ought to do. We are free to make choices, yet, after all
lies the consequences of our choices and as a seminarian, I believe the most
painful part is when we are remove from the place we called our home. In this
situation is it still our choice? I believe so, because in this situation
although it is the decision of the formators and somehow not directly our
choice, but I believe, we somehow indirectly choose it. In the very first
place, it was our choice to do things which we knew very well that it was not
in accordance with seminary formation.
All of us have our freedom to
choose and how we live our lives depend on our choices, however if we get
strayed because of our choices, we still have a chance to choose again—now to
choose for the better. It doesn't make us a bad person if we make wrong choices,
rather, it makes us a bad person if we never learn from our wrong choices and
continue to choose it again and again.
It is not yet too late, let us
make a right choice in the name of God. AD MAIOREM DEI GLORIAM.
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