Choices we never made.

The little child with five nannies attending to him/her and the little child sleeping under the bridge without a mother have something in common which is the inability to decide which family they were born into. The child who bares John and the other who bares Wilson both have something in common, the inability to choose what they should be called as at that time even though we now have people growing up and changing their names but as at then when they were little such choices were never their's to make.

Walking down my usual lonely road while trying to go earn a living, rain pouring down heavily during that rush hour when everyone is trying to make it to work before resumption time. I can not but help notice a small boy of about five or six years old all dressed up in a grey trouser, white shirt and a little bit over-sized dark blue jacket which if am right is his school uniform, also participating in the rush of making it to school before it's 9am but now he is fully soaked with the down pour of the rain. He is still dragging himself in the rain without any umbrella and just right beside me on the road is another boy of the same age having the same school uniform on, seated inside a Mercedes-Benz S-Class licking a big stick of lollipop. 

The two different scenarios at the same time got me really thinking and that brought about questions. 
Did any of those two little boys ever choose their present situations or conditions?
Did one do something much better than the other?
If they happen to  be in the same class will it be easier for the boy who has just finished having lollipop to concentrate compared to the other one who will probably still be finding a way to get his clothes dry or shivering from the impact of the wet clothes?  

So many questions to ask and a few right answers to be given which leads to the summary that there are so many choices we never made but the good news is most of them we can change. We find ourselves in different situations that we never planned to be and instead of work towards changing them all we do is lament without doing anything about it. Ask yourself today, "That thing I complained about, what have i done to change it?" The family you use as excuse for not having a good background, now that you have grown up what efforts have you made to ensure that the next family that comes through you will not experience what you have experienced. 

Are we going to be like the young boy who despite the rain still decided to keep walking straight to school because he wanted to impact the choices he never had the opportunity to make or are we going to do otherwise and stay in the rain looking at the boy in the car and just having self pity without doing anything?