“We are free to choose but we are not free from the consequences of our choices.” Russell M Nelson, Prophet and President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Some people think this is a religious message. Some people believe that this does not apply to them because they don’t believe in God or the correct god. I am convinced that though it is prophetic counsel it applies equally to the most and the least religious of us. We all have at least some degree of control over what we say and do as do those around us. But the sum total of all those choices bind us to paths that are difficult to escape. We are free to make different choices to get different consequences but we can’t avoid consequences all together.
We can choose poverty or bounty. We can choose to fight to be more free or accept the things the world throws on us. There will be pain either way but we have some ability to choose whether it is the pain of letting others choose for us or the pain of loneliness from shutting others out. It is said that what we tolerate will continue. Choose this day what you are willing to continue in your life and fight to be free of what you can no longer tolerate.
Latter Day Sinner 
6 responses to “The Consequences”
Neither poverty nor bounty are discrete choices. Both result from the accumulated choices of oneself and others, including the cumulative choices of generations of others. Furthermore, they wouldn’t be opposing choices, even if they were discrete choices.
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You don’t think every choice a person makes causes them to be slightly more poor or slightly more rich and that accumulates to patterns that move a life in one direction or another? They seem opposite and accumulative to me.
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I think you need to look up bounty.
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Riches, booty, treasure. That’s is the intention of how I used it.
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Bounty is a reward or a gift, not earnings. It is not transactional in nature.
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The sea is bountiful but only for those who fish.
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