Optional

Have you ever noticed that some things are optional? Like when you are young, sleep can be optional. I remember working for my aunt and uncle on their farm one summer, I would have to get up at 5:00 or so to start moving sprinkler pipe, no matter what time I got in the night before and there would be times when I would get in very late and still be up on time to do my job. Of course, there was always nap time after lunch which was a blessing. Why have I stopped taking naps? Is it because it is not socially acceptable to take a break for 10-15 minutes at work, close the door and recuperate? I don't know but there have been studies that napping is beneficial for productivity and such. Interesting tangent but I do miss naps especially when not getting enough sleep. Some people in today's society have considered manners as optional. They are not. I guess there are not that many things that are optional. In fact, I don't consider anything optional any more. Because if you choose to do something, there is always a consequence on the other side; be it a good or bad one. We are given the option of choosing what we do, just not the outcome or consequence. Life itself is optional and what we do in it. By optional I mean we are agents unto ourselves to choose either life or death, to live with our Parents and Big Brother or to choose captivity and death. The more incorrect choices we make, the more we are bound down by he who desires our destruction and to be miserable as he is. Obedience is our choice but results are not optional.