The Power Of Choice: A Blessing Or A Curse?

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Choice in itself is both a gift and a death sentence.
We are given a will of our own. To know and do what we want to do, how we want to do it and when we want to do it.
Our choices are not forced on us, we make them by our own sovereignty.
Animals are not so lucky. They may have a will, but they don't have that freedom to do what they want, when they want and how they want.

Plants are the "unluckiest" of all. They certainly have no will of their own and no choice of their own. Several factors determine their existence and death.
A plant or rather a seed sown in a good soil with all conditions in place will invariably grow to become a tree, bear fruits and keep reproducing for as long as the conditions for its growth are still in place. It has no choice to DECIDE to stop bearing fruits, or to bear a different fruit or to change its location. It is a living thing, yet limited in it's potentials and the ability to live its life how it dim fit is not given to it.

This "unluckiness" of a tree is in itself the very reason why a tree is blessed and has zero worries. A tree does not bother itself with means of sustenance or livelihood, these things are catered for by nature, and since the tree does not have the ability ti make its choices, it cannot act in a way that will cut it off from the free gifts it enjoys from nature.

So as long as its power of choice is denied, it keeps enjoying the best things "life" has to offer. So much for its unluckiness.

The "lucky man" who has the almighty power of choice is not so fortunate.
Give a man all he needs for survival, there's every chance he would squander all his resources and end up a problem both to himself and to the society.
So much for his power of choice.

The first man had all he ever needed,  a beautiful 'naked' wife and a thriving garden to make life comfortable. What more will one ask for! But what happened?
Well, choice happened, and the "wise" man ends up accusing his Maker, blames his wife, gets kicked out from the garden and a curse for his troubles. So much for his "choices"

Man's life would probably had been well off if his power of choice were limited, withheld or somewhat scrutinized, rather than left alone to the self-destructive potentials of man.
No, here is the all "powerful" man with his arrogant collection of choices, and with this power, he drowns himself in a mud-sea of perpetual suffering.

Would we have been better off without  the power to make our decisions?

Can you trust yourself so much to make the right decision all the time?

How would our lives had been if we didn't need or have to make all those life-threatening decisions?

Can we really not worry about what to eat, wear or houses to live in if we had the power to make choices?

The birds of the air and the grasses DO NOT worry about these things and they are doing very fine; don't forget they DON'T GET to make their own decisions.

Your answers to those questions is as good as mine.