a new design from the same mold

I learned something of great importance recently. You are who you choose to be. Sounds so extremely simple doesn't it? But for the longest while I was letting my emotions define me, I let my friends define me, and I let my insecurities define me. But it's my choices that ultimately determine who I am. Not what I've done, what I haven't done, because those actions revolved around my choice on whether to act or not. Which means the me I don't want to become will never be me unless I choose it. So all I need to do is just not choose it and I'll be okay, right?

Not really.

Choices are never that easy to make... I'm going to make wrong ones but every right choice I make is another step in the right direction. As long as I don't lose more ground than I gain in the struggle, I'll be alright... maybe.

Man has always had this ability.

Cain, before he goes mental on his brother, actually was confronted by God concerning his anger. In which God says, "Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it". Meaning even Cain, the first murderer in history had the ability to choose a different path, to not let his anger define him. This ability to choose is both our greatest gift and the very reason there's evil in the world. Although really there's not evil in the world so much as there's evil inside of me, and you, and the people you see on the news that killed a seven year old child in a most horrid way. We are who we choose to be... nothing else defines us but that.

This was very good news for me... maybe it will be to someone else that stumbles upon this