ONE LIFE TO LIVE

                                                    Slice of Life
                                   One life to live...To be or not to be !
                                                    

Everyone has choices in life...either to give in or to try to resist life's challenges and obstacles. The path of your freedom to live life based on your choices may be tough. But one must remember that one has one life to live so why should it be weighed down by 'unreasonable' demands and expectations of society. Naturally, one must be sensitive to others but you are entitled to live your choices as long as you don't cause harm to others and don't disrespect them. One just has to be confident about one's choices and then only can you get them accepted by others in time with a little amount of patience, tact and courage .  
Sometimes I wonder why in certain cultures one does not have the right to live one's own life the way one desires...I feel that one should not be a slave to rigid thoughts.  My motto has been that as long  as you can look at yourself in the mirror and serve your conscience, you do not have to look towards others for validation. What actually matters is that you like yourself and are at peace with yourself.  And you will like yourself only if you are doing the right thing... 
Real peace comes with making honest choices instead of pretending to yourself that you are making the right choices for the sake of others. If you always please others and not yourself, then you take the first step on a never ending path of endless expectations from you , where nothing is ever enough. As a result you will never be truly happy too. If people really care  for each other...they will allow each other the freedom to live life to the fullest along with the choices that come with it.