[garganzol]

In any case, that's the beauty of life: we live the consequences. Both sweet and bitter, depending on choices of the past.

[kubb]

Most of what happens to us is by chance, not by choice. And when it's by choice, its often not our own choice.

[garganzol]

This is what they want you to believe. You are useful and convenient when you are malleable (to someone's else agenda aka "their choice"). Ideally, you should not practice any discernment at all, raise no questions, silence any suspicions. As if it's all by sheer coincidence and predefined by external forces ("chance").

Straight out of "Manipulators' Handbook 101".

[kubb]

You're the one not raising questions about this nonsensical maxim. It seems neat to you so you accept it as truth uncritically.

[garganzol]

It's not the truth. It's an observation, one of many. It does not look neat, it looks horrible. However, I am ok to give it a deeper nuanced appreciation than to just negate it right off the bat.

[yoyohello13]

The annoying part is when I’ve got to live with the consequences of someone else’s choices.