therefore making a choice picking one item from the…
Page 68 keyword choice therefore making a choice picking one item from the menu far from representing some kind of defeat becomes an affirmation. It's a positive commitment to spend a given portion of time doing this instead of that. Actually instead of an infinite number of other thats, because this which is what you've decided, would count the most right now. In other words, precisely the fact that I could have chosen a different and perhaps equally valuable way to spend this afternoon that bestows meeting on the choice I did make and. And this same applies to an entire lifetime.
— from Time