ISSUE136

TOPIC: ISSUE136 - "The absence of choice is a circumstance that is very, very rare."
WORDS: 583 TIME: 01:25:19 DATE: 2008/7/20 23:32:13

Someone deals with things by waiting for others choices while others by choosing the exact ones in his own opinion. The absence of choice is a circumstance that is very, very rare, under both of the above conditions.

To begin with, there really are few choices for us under certain circumstances, especially in the nature disasters or under some limitation of laws and norms. The earthquake in SiChuan Province, which is the biggest one in 21st century so far, have brought nearly 100,000 people into death while much more people injured or lost their hometowns. There is no choice for our human beings to inhibit the earthquake from breaking out, because no matter how strong we are, we are only a small part of the nature which we cannot fight against. So, there is no choice for inhibiting the earthquakes but ones for declining its damage. In addition, as a soldier, he must follow his leader's order unconditionally, even if he will be death in the mission. So, there is no choice for the soldier but to wait commands.

However, the circumstances talked above, in fact, are rare. There are more conditions that we are not willing to choose or don't dare to choose. For example, due to the unbalanced development of economics in China, it is really a big problem for students to get a satisfied job after they graduated from universities or colleges. The reason for students under unemployment is not there is no job available for them, but they do not want to choose the job subjectively which cannot suit for their high degrees. On the other hand, there are choices but we do not dare to choose, too. For instance, in the last century, when Plank, one of the most famous scientists in physics, studied the radiation of full body, he found that there is no choice for him to solve this problem but to make the assumption that the light must be divided into pieces which was really a crazy theory at that time. Other scientists have already realized the problem before Plank, but they thought there is no choice and do not dare to choose the uncommon assumption which made Plank meet with success.

Moreover, why we found the absence of choice for ourselves under certain circumstance? Admittedly, whether there are choices or not is related to the different people. Furthermore, how can we make more choices available for us? The perfect choices which can lead to success are not exist unconditionally but be created or discovered by ourselves. For example, there are hundreds universities and colleges in the United States. But they are not choices for us if we don't have a high GPA, TOEFL and GRE scores, strong recommendation, attractive personal statement. Only when we are more outstanding than others can this choices be created or discovered and be available for us.
In addition, it is the best choice, sometimes, for us to refuse to choose in fact. When it is hard to decide a choice, we can wait for variations or others choices for helping us to choose the way which may bring us much more success than firm decision.

Generally speaking, the absence of choice is a circumstance that is very, very rare, actually. However, in order to meet a grand success, we must create or discover more perfect choices other than choose passively. If there is really no choice at all, to say at least, we can wait and wait for change.