Sunday, August 22, 2010

Good Choices/Bad Choices

At some point I am going to Blog about making good choices in life.  Unfortunately, we have to make many important choices when we are young, before we have the benefit of experience.   I sometimes wish that we had time machines, so that we could fast forward ten years and then look back to see the consequences of our actions.

I write this because one of my Facebook friends was beaten up by her boyfriend yesterday: split lip, bruises.

He's in jail.  She says that he's her life and that she loves him.

Really?  No one beats up someone they love.  This is done by someone with low self-esteem, who gets satisfaction by attacking those weaker than himself.  If he beats her once, he'll beat her again.  He'll hit the children.  He'll abuse the pets.

Even if she's ambivalent, even if he says he's sorry, she should look for someone else.    To stay is to face a life of  fear, low self-esteem, and depression.  Leaving is the good choice; staying is the bad choice.

Fortunately, most of the advice she's getting is to leave.  For her sake, I hope she does. 

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