Choice

A few days ago we sort of touched on the issue of choice, during the Barker reading. I was very interesting in looking at this a little closer.

So supposedly we have freedom of choice. But where do our choices come from? What if we don't like the choices presented to us? I remember when I was a kid, my mom would ask me if I wanted grape jelly or strawberry for my sandwich. A little example, yes, but what if I didn't want a sandwich in the first place? I didn't really have that choice. I think the same idea can be applied to truly important decisions in our lives. Another example from my life- when I was applying to colleges, for the most part I could pick which ones I wanted, what I might want to study, those kind of things. But it was not a choice of if I would go to college, or if I would go to college immediately following high school. That was already decided for me by my parents. I could help pick the details, but the main decision was already made.

I could recognize that this decision was already made. But are there situations in our lives that we don't recognize, don't see, where we can only pick the details, not the decision?