Is Life a "Choose Your Own Adventure" book? (If I do this, that happens. If I do that, this happens.)?

Question

Does Life lead us down different paths, depending on the choices we make?

Answer 1

Yes it does. Life is all about choices. Some good some bad. You don't even realize the little choices you make that have an impact on your life. You can choose not to look both ways before crossing a street that could be a life changing experience in itself. So yes you choose the life you want to lead.

Answer 2

Yes, life does have cause and effect, but not in as majour of a way as a "Choose Your Own Adventure" book. In life, life changing decisions are too rare for them to be like a storybook.

"There are no wrong choices in life, just different ones."-A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

Answer 3

That is my interpret of free will.Fate is what happens after we choose. We don't always know the end result and can often change in midstream.

Have a Good Life, smell the roses,and answer opportunities knock!

Answer 4

In one way, yes.

But there are some times when your choices backfire on you. They won't always come true. You must keep on progressing forward.

Answer 5

of course, every action has a reaction, physical or otherwise, every action a consequence, realized or not, it really is that simple, unless your trying to ask something else.

Answer 6

I believe that Life is a choose your own adventure but I don't believe it's as simple as you put it. Yes we do have free will to chose different paths in our lives, but what about a child who is part of an abusive home. He or she did not "choose" that path. Although God has given us free will, we live in  a fallen world. God is the author and the finisher of our lives but he allows us to choose certain paths. We may choose to live in Dallas, Texas or Bejing, China. But Dallas, Texas and Bejing, China are not the only choices. There are a million different places we can choose to live. This example is the same in life. There are a million different choices that we can make it not simply black and white. It's more complicated than a Choose Your Own Adventure book. But yes, different choices we make lead us down different paths, but different choices that other people make mixed in with a huge portion of God's will for our lives effect our life also.

Answer 7

Of course.  With every breath we choose among infinite paths.  Whether it is a conscious decision or not, a choice is made.  My life will be forever altered by the fact that I am answering this question.  In what ways, I'll never know.  Maybe not as dramatic as the kind of book you mention.  But life is rarely as dramatic as a book.  And we can all be glad of that!