The choices someone makes have an explicit bearing on who that person becomes. In order to create ourselves, we have to make direct decisions on that path. We cannot blame anything that happens to us on anything other than the decisions we make. Nothing out there can cause us problems unless we choose to let that happen. In one article I read it stated that “Something becomes an obstacle only if I decide upon a course of action that would make it so. Therefore it is my decision that constitutes the obstacle” (Plantinga). Therefore, anything that gets in our way is only something that we have chosen to
The choices someone makes have an explicit bearing on who that person becomes. In order to create ourselves, we have to make direct decisions on that path. We cannot blame anything that happens to us on anything other than the decisions we make. Nothing out there can cause us problems unless we choose to let that happen. In one article I read it stated that “Something becomes an obstacle only if I decide upon a course of action that would make it so. Therefore it is my decision that constitutes the obstacle” (Plantinga). Therefore, anything that gets in our way is only something that we have chosen to