A really comforting thought is that we DO have a choice in every moment of our lives. We often believe we don't, but we do. In each and every instant of our day we are faced with different possibilities: wear the white shirt or the red one, eat meat or fish, walk or drive, watch a movie or read a book, listen to a friend or ignore him/her, answer with a kind word or with a rude one, believe we can do it or we can't, believe we are winners or losers. Most of what we are surrounded by (environment, situations, people) try to make us believe that the only choice we have is to go with the flow, to do what others do, to accept what others tell us to do. Isn't this the whole idea about advertising? "They" endeavor to convince us that the only way to live better is to buy their product, to believe what they are saying, to trust their promises, to vote in their favor. We shall go on living blindfolded as long as we are not aware of the blindfold that is shrouding our perception of our true freedom to choose who we really want to be, what we really want to do with ourselves and with our lives.
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