Choices Big and Small
May-June 2013
"We never know when a choice that’s unimportant to us may be the catalyst for someone else’s really big choice."
I sat down to write this column thirty-six hours after the horrific massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Months later, this tragic episode has taken its place among myriad examples of how far life deviates from the way it’s supposed to be.
This event and others like it—planes turned into bombs, entertainment into carnage, education into massacre—reminds us with heartbreaking clarity that our world, for good or ill, is shaped by individual choices. Few of us will ever make a choice with such immediate and far-reaching implications as these, but we all make daily choices with consequences we can’t foresee.
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