Make Good Choices.

My dear grandmother, bless her heart, is never at a loss with old timey anecdotes and cliche catch phrases on self and life improvment. Bless her latter day saints filled heart with her "if not you who? if not now, when?", and "remember, we teach others how to treat us" as she shares the life virtues that 75 years has bestowed upon her. One peice of advice she never fails to add to every letter, message or phone call is "Make good choices". Now- as simple as these words may be in her Mormon mind (There are only TEN commandmandments...right!? But I joke...) the idea behind making GOOD choices can be quite complex and even the blantantly easy and smartest choices can prove challenging to make.

Why is it that we (as women, especially) stay painfully attatched to a dude who is less than worthy? Who treats us like complete shit? Who is NOTHING like that of which we consider a real and plausible partner or even a decent human being at that? The GOOD choice is obvious- DROP the fucking tool and save yourself for someone who deserves you. Who can at least treat you with respect and decency. And then when you dig yourself even deeper into a SHIT HOLE and suddenly long term life commitments become involved (ahem...children--for example)we STILL cant seem to make the CONCIOUS GOOD CHOICE to even do what is best for that CHILD. Are we all so wrapped up in our screwed up psychies and empty, wrong, falsified desires to make the OBVIOUS good choice? Of course the relationship is a simple and relatable example among many (and I like to live vicariously through my TV show alter ego Carrie Bradshaw)But you have to wonder--why must "MAKE GOOD CHOICES" be a term deemed repeatable as if the first, thrid, fiftieth time around still doesnt allow it to register?

And although we may be driven by a force more powerful than our own concience into making the bad decision (or satan as it is known around my grandmas house)really at the end of the day can't you just step back, take all of the lessons of life you have learned about right and wrong and just allow yourself to make a plain 'ol good choice?

Easier said than done, idnt it?

Here is to attempting to make good choices. And... praying for thoes who cannot? That is a good choice, righ grandma?