We are the Sum of Our Columbos

We are the sum of our choices. 

Everytime we make a choice we simultaneously reject an infinity of other possible choices.

It's all about inclusion, exclusion and toleration with inclusion being the rarest of the three. 

Take Columbo for example.

Zero inclusion. Maximum exclusion. Medim toleration.

I never watched it when it was in its first run. Every time it was on, I chose to do something else. God only knows what I did during those hundred hours but the way my life has turned out ( or with our universal defense system against regret), I'm pretty sure I had a good time.

My life became influenced by all of the things I did choose to do in those hundred hours.

I led my life, up until last week, without any Columbo influence whatsoever other than the not completely understood transactions I was having with others who had included the Columbo influence on their lives into the decision making that was a factor in the transaction that they were having with me.

Would I have become a different "person" had I chosen to watch Columbo?

Yes, a little different.

What difference does a little different make? Well if Cleopatra's nose would have been any longer or any shorter or Grant had refused to let Custer return to the Plains or if I hadn't walked into the dance the night that I first danced with Lynn or on and on and on.

Little differences.

Choices.

Choosing the words to the next sentence leading up to the next paragraph leading to the conclusion, hoping all those choices are correct so that this makes sense and you are still reading, still making the choice to include these words into the influence of your life, just a tiny bit.

I'm pretty sure you could have spent the last few minutes doing something more beneficial, after all, three minutes ag there were an infinite amount of possibilities.

In the midst of that infinity, however, there is this moment. This one right now.

According to Allan Watts, the only moment......

The moment where I say"thank you" and assure you of just one more thing.

You made the right choices to get here and stay this long. Those choices are gonna pay off sometime, somewhere and when they do let me know.