Choosing

I've talked about this before, but feel that I should reiterate it today.

Choosing.

We all have agency.

We do, in fact, have the ability to choose.

I cannot tell you how many times I have heard, "You can choose how you feel."

"You can choose your response."
"You can choose not to do that"

The list goes on and on.

This is a friendly-ish reminder that, although in scientific terms, this is true...

We don't know what the ins and outs of other people entail.

We don't know every aspect of their upbringing, education, development, abuse or non-abuse, neglect history, etc.

Those things contribute to the ability to make "correct" choices.

Just simply knowing right from wrong does not enable every single person to make the exact decision that you might feel they should be making.

Be kind.