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Real Spill: Life and the choices we make
I met him six months post house arrest. Of course I didn’t know this prior to giving him my phone number.
We talked, went out, got to know each other. Pretty cool guy. Eventually the conversation turned to that of sex. He hinted it had been awhile since he’d done the do.
“How long?”
“About seven years?”
“Why?”
“I was in prison.”
Gasp.
He broke the whole story down to me.
Needless to say, the crime wasn’t bad to the point where I’d stop talking to him.
He was sentenced to ten years but was released after seven. With the remaining three served on probation. Hell bent on never going back, he worked any job he could, and eventually began cutting hair at a barbershop.
One thing that stuck out to me was when he said, “One thing I learned, is that you always have a choice.”
Ironically we don’t realize our choices until we’re stripped of them.
For him, it was a hard lesson learned. One that cost him seven years of his life.
This is a reminder that we’re all one bad decision away from having our freedom or life taken from us.
The world has seemingly become more chaotic lately, and its all a culmination of our decisions. I just hope and pray nightly, that we all wake the next day, and make the best choices we can.
