My Actions

Am I not my actions? My choices, my decisions, my hopes and dreams turned real? Who I am is who I can become, for I am not complete – not yet. With my actions I forge my character, my future, my life – it is all in my hands. What I do defines who I am. Success or failure? My choices brought me here. Besides, isn’t success and failure sometimes a mindset? A conscious decision to act that it is so? An act. A choice. Words? I can say anything, mean anything, but until I act my words are just that – words. Who did right? The one who said they would and didn’t? Or the one who said they wouldn’t and then did? Thoughts? There can be a claim here – I think therefore I am – no. Just because I think something does not mean I do so. Thoughts like words are transient, flitting and rushing, hard to chain down. But my actions! Here lie my lasting decisions, affecting the world long after I have gone. I choose who I am to be today, tomorrow, and forever after. 22 July 2020