We can all tend to get lost in our own world and forget the terrible experience and horrors that others have been through, and which make our experience pale into insignificance. How easy to become bitter after the experience of being caught up in the Holocaust and seeing how low humanity can sink, but one survivor has given us something that is truly inspiring; a vision of how we should all try to approach what life throws at us.
The Gift of Choice - By Gertrude Hildreth Housman
I came into this world without being asked
And when the time for dying comes
I shall not be consulted
But between the boundaries of birth and death
Lies the Dominion of Choice
To be a doer or a dreamer
To be a lifter or a leaner
To speak out or remain silent
To extend a hand in friendship
Or to look the other way
To feel the suffering of others
Or to be callous and insensitive
These are the choices
It is in the choosing
That my measure as a person
Is Determined
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