"why, Mr. Anderson? why do you do it? why get up? why keep fighting? do you believe you're fighting for something? for more than your survival? can you tell me what it is? do you even know? is it freedom? or truth? perhaps peace? yes? no? could it be for love? illusions, mr. anderson, vagaries of perception. The temporary abstracts of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. and all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself, although only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. you must be able to see it, mr. anderson. you must know it by now. you can't win. it's pointless to keep fighting. why, mr. anderson? why? why do you persist?"

"because i choose to."

just think about that for a minute...and one more minute...okay.
how intense is that statement?! and how true is it?! everything in our lives comes as a result of choices somebody has made. sometimes they're bad choices....MOST times they are bad choices. but then sometimes it'll be the best decision of your life! i know that i've done so many things that afterwards i wish i hadn't done...i'm not saying that i 'regretted' those things, perse, i just know that i could've easily taken a different approach to the situation. but the point is, one way or another i made a choice that led to me being in that situation and i know that. one of my prof.s was trying to tell us that everything in life isn't made by choice...his friend has six kids and had to drop out of school to be a cab driver so he could support his family. this was not his choice apparently and he was actually forced out of school because he wasn't doing well in his classes (for lack of time to study). can somebody please tell me how it is not a choice to have six children?! ya, that's what i thought. because life is about making choices and those who succeed simply choose right. sorry...i'm a little bitter about this because i'm sick of people complaining about their lives and how they've just got the whole world against them, trying to tell me that nothing's their fault and that it's just their poor luck. it's not luck!!! it's about the decisions you make for yourself and they way you live your life. if you're going to go out partying every night then of course you're going to feel sick, and you're going to be tired, and you'll probably do badly in classes. but guess what?! you chose to go out partying and you chose to ignore your studies. it's not my problem so stop trying to make it my problem!!!!