Heads or Tails

Carl Sandburg once said, ~Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.~ If you think about it, life would most definitely be interesting if the choices each of us decided on were only made by a simple flip of a coin. For whichever side it lands on that will inevitably be the choice one goes with unless you're the type of person who goes for 2 out of 3, which is basically your prerogative. Hey, life is considered a gamble and sometimes you have to take risks as you make not only those fairly semi-non important decisions but also those life altering ones as well and whatever the consequences afterwards you'll deal with it.

Without a doubt, we've all at some point made that fairly unimportant decision as to where to go in order to get one's proverbial grub on. It can be a comical and yet frustrating situation indeed when a group of people can't make up their minds on where to eat to the point you all end up not going anywhere and just order pizza instead, which probably many have done recently or in the past. The decision on what/where to eat would be primarily easy if it was just one's own choice, but when it involves a group of people it can turn into one huge, ugly debate/argument as to why that particular eating establishment shouldn't be the unanimous choice to go with and that's when the time to flip the coin comes into play.

Think about this, what if accepting and declining a job comes down to the flip of a coin when it pertains to weighing the options of which two places of employment would best benefit you both personally and financially. For it can be a tough situation for any person to make as one tries to figure out the best possible future for not only one's self but also for one's family as well. Depending on if you have a family or are thinking about one day having one, the right job means not just having financial stability but also means doing something you absolutely enjoy doing rather than doing something you totally loathe and despise. Hopefully, the choice made with one's future profession as you toss your life in the air is one you can be happy with and if not then your s.o.l.

Let me ask you this question, what if love or true love for that matter was decided by a coin. In my own thinking, it would make relationships a bit more interesting as you leave the decision on who you would rather spend your entire life with on an inanimate silver object that is merely worth 25 cents. Oftentimes, the hardest choices one can ever make come from within your very own heart and the decision as to who will stay at your side and who will leave heartbroken is sitting right there in your pocket. However, in a sense though, you're not throwing a coin up in the air, but rather you're metaphorically throwing your very own heart in the air as the faces of those two people are on either side of the coin and whichever side it lands on, he's/she's the one.

In retrospect, with every choice we make in life you'll in some way hear a distinct coin being flipped in the air. Flipped, not by the hand of those who think they can make those choices in life for us, but flipped by our own hand because the future is what we can make of it, especially when it comes to love. Sometimes those particular choices we've made in life and in love didn't necessarily work out and yet, it's those particular unfortunate flips of the coin that one may lose at times have become learning experiences. In the end, you have to continually keep taking out the coin of life in your pocket and flip it without being scared of what the outcome(s) may be as it either lands on heads or tails.