Haiku — 0010: Choices.

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mple of a crane waiting on the river to catch the big fish even as the smaller ones slip by.</p><p id="aa8e">And that has always been in the back of my mind as I navigated the various choices in my life. Some great, some good, some downright terrible. But in my eyes, the ability to choose was still more important than having a choice made for my life. As would the two animals in the above Haiku do. The smaller jackal chooses to adapt to a situation and get a meal despite being weak, while the stronger lion would want to hunt.</p><p id="89cf">This, despite both being driven by hunger. Such is the power of choice, which helps our lives exactly where we want them to.</p><p id="720

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That which matters.

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Jackal feasts scraps,

Lion patient till the hunt,

Winter starves them both.

In my first language, Tamil, there are so many works of literature. Still, the one that is closest to me is a certain Moodhurai (literally a concatenation of moodhu/elderly + urai/text) poem which talks about waiting for the opportune moment and uses the example of a crane waiting on the river to catch the big fish even as the smaller ones slip by.

And that has always been in the back of my mind as I navigated the various choices in my life. Some great, some good, some downright terrible. But in my eyes, the ability to choose was still more important than having a choice made for my life. As would the two animals in the above Haiku do. The smaller jackal chooses to adapt to a situation and get a meal despite being weak, while the stronger lion would want to hunt.

This, despite both being driven by hunger. Such is the power of choice, which helps our lives exactly where we want them to.

What was your biggest choice in life, one for which you let a few other possibilities slip by?

Yesterday’s Haiku —