Chance or Choice (reposted from my old blogs)

When we meet the right person to love, when we're at the right place at

the right time. That's chance.

When you meet someone you're attracted to, that's not a choice. That's

chance.

Being caught up in a moment (and there are a lot of couples who get

together because of this!) is not a choice. That's also a chance.

If you decide to love a person, even with his faults, that's not a chance.

That's choice.

When you choose to be with a person, no matter what, that's choice.

Even if you know there are many people out there who are more attractive,

smarter, and richer than your mate, and yet, you decide to love your mate

just the same, that's choice.

Infatuation, crushes, attraction comes to us by chance. But true love that

lasts is truly a choice. A choice that we make.

Regarding soul mates, there's a beautiful movie quote that I believe is so

true about this: "Fate brings you together, but it's still up to you to

stay together and make it happen."

I do believe that soul mates do exist. That there is truly someone made for

you. But it's still up to you to make the choice if you're going to do

something about it or not. We may meet our soul mates by chance, but loving

and staying with our soul mate is still a choice we have to make.

"Loving involves two phases. The first intuitive one is loving the person

because of who he/she is.

The second nobler one is loving the person despite who he/she is not. The

first one sparks love. The second one makes it last."

So I choose to make it last and it did