Life Is About Choices Novels & Stories

He will leave after graduation to forget me, and I think I can do the same, and everything will be back to normal. I have Primo. He came into my life first. He's the one my family wants. He was the first guy I liked. I have already foreseen our future since I was a kid. I can't change my mind just because my heart started to beat for someone else. I will choose Primo. He was my first choice. He is the safest choice. If I follow my heart, things will become messy. I know what I feel. I am not dumb, but I have to act like one.

Chapter 35: The Choice That Breaks You “Kung ako ang pipili kung sino ang mabubuhay—ibig sabihin kaya ko ring patayin ang mahal ko.” Hindi ako makahinga. Hindi ako makagalaw. Parang may biglang pumisil sa puso ko— dahil sa sinabi niya. She was designed to choose who lives… and who dies. “Hindi…” Mahina ang boses ko.

Isa-isang umahon sa dibdib ang mga tanong na naipon sa kaloob-looban niya. Tuluyan na siyang hinarap muli ng lalaki. His eyes were carefully studying her. Humawak ito sa baba habang nasa bulsa ng pantalon naman ang isa. Mannerism na namana ng kapatid niya. When he lifted his chin and looked her in the eye, it gave her an unsettling feeling. “Life is a matter of choice, Mere. I made a choice, and I chose to let go of the pains. Ang maging mabuti sa’yo ay kasama sa mga desisyon ko.”

Hindi niya alam kung bakit, pero may kung anong kumirot sa dibdib niya—parang babala… o paanyaya. “Kuya,” mahina niyang tawag, “may choice ba ako?” Saglit na tumahimik si Lian bago sumagot. “Sa mundo natin,” ani Lian, “sometimes, choices come after consequences.” Huminga nang malalim si Calista. Sa di kalayuan, ang mga ilaw ng siyudad ay patuloy na kumikislap—walang pakialam sa kung anong kapalaran ang papalapit.

Our decisions in life determines our fate, at hawak natin ang mga desisyon natin. If you think someone controlled your decisions, it is your choice to be controlled. You let yourself to be controlled. If your fate is to be an exile, then you chose to be an exile. If your fate is to be a prisoner of love, then you chose to be a prisoner of love. If you think you are stuck, that's because you chose not to move on. If you are stuck between your doubts and uncertainties, that's because you are not trying, and it is your choice to stay that way.

“They usually care more about profit, expansion, image. Pero ikaw, iba. You sound… free.” Napatahimik ako. Free? Totoo ba iyon? O baka pilit ko lang sinasabi sa sarili ko na may choice ako? Pero sa bagay… I am free nga. Hindi ako pinilit ni Lolo no'ng magdesisyon akong mag medicine. “Freedom is expensive,” singit bigla ni Mr. Park, may bigat ang boses. “And sometimes, people like us… we don’t always get to choose.”

It was a sad life. When she fell in love with Seth, she had laid everything down. Wala na siyang inisip. Ibinigay niya ang lahat-lahat. Subalit sa bandang huli, nasaktan pa rin siya. Now, her life is broken—her heat shattered. Choices. Life was always giving her painful choices. And Jewel has learned that if people wanted to be with her, it was she who needs to call the shots. It was her life after all. She is in-charge.

Kinuha ko iyong buhay na para sa'yo. Tumawa lang siya sa akin. "We have choices, Iake. And these choices made us what we are now. Hindi ko na iniisip iyon. Kung kami ni Kairos, noon po lang, naging kami na sana, kung hindi man kami, wala akong magagawa roon, bakit ko ipipilit iyong isang bagay na hindi pwede? H'wag mong sisihin ang sarili mo. It's our choice, Iake. Hindi lang ikaw ang apektado dito."

Life is so unfair… It has never been fair to everyone. Being alive can be happy and can be loneliness. It offers you pain or suffering. It’s either you choose to be contented or to crave more. Either you controlled it or lived with it. As for me, life has no meaning. Being born into this world gives me pain and suffering. It was telling me that I was born not to rule my life but to be ruled by someone else. The people around me have always predicted my future. They were the ones who decide whether I choose this or not.

Masyado ko lang dinibdib kaya umabot ako sa puntong papunta na sa pagkapariwara ang buhay ko at nasaksihan ko ang krimen ni Marcus. Baka nga ako lang ang nagpapahirap sa sarili ko. Kailangan ko lang sigurong matanggap ang mga nangyayari sa ‘kin. Kasi sabi ni Ate Kiss, hindi tayo p'wedeng magpatali sa nakaraan. Hindi matutuwa sina Mama at Papa kung ganito kagulo ang buhay ko. Life is a choice. You choose how you're going to live with it. There's always two ways that we can choose where we want to make our own path. I should choose now.