📢 You're probably not making your own choices

Michael Crichton was stuffed in the trunk while other people drove his car.

He had no control over the direction of his life. Despite an early passion for writing his parents and teachers discouraged it. Feeling like he had no choice he went to medical school to become a doctor. He was a respected good student.

But It wasn’t what he wanted.

It was what other people wanted for him. 

It took him all of medical school to realize he didn’t want to spend the rest of his life in a hospital. Despite his family and friends disapproving Micheal set out to become an author.

He became an award-winning author, writing classics like Jurassic Park.

Michael Crichton’s whole life hung in the balance of a single choice.

A choice all of us have to make. To do what you want or to do what others want you to do. 

• It's the choice you face when your parents tell you what career to pursue. 

• It’s the choice you face when your uncle tells you “the best way” to live life. 

• It's the choice you face when your friend's peer pressure you into drinking.

Our life is bombarded by the opinions of others.

Other people, usually with good intentions, will try to shape you into their ideal version of you. 

People get disappointed when you don’t match their own vision. It's why we get offended when people dislike our favourite movie or disagree with our opinion. Part of us wants everyone to conform to our view of the world. After all, we’re right; they're wrong. 

When you don’t match their version of you some will push you away because you’ve become a disappointment.

A difficult reality Michael Crichton had faced.

Maybe it's not worth the sacrifice.

But sometimes you have to choose whether to die to others or die to yourself.

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That’s a wrap!

— Justus Bosch

P.S. What 300 meters of underwater peer pressure feels like... (this one made me laugh out loud)