It's who we are.

             
               No matter how long and hard we look into the future to determine the product of our choice of action (And, most of us don't look long enough or hard enough), we cannot foresee the true effect of what we do until we do it.  I mean, really, our lives are like a beautful rose garden.  Taken as a whole,the roses look so rich and vibrant frosting the dark green body of the symmetrically planted bushes.  It is not until we start to work in the garden that we discover the prickly nature of the thorny bushes and that, what in the world, weeds are vitiating the ground of this garden.  From afar, other's lives look so well kept and luciously decorated, while, with sweat dripping from our brow, we think our's is a mess.  Then, after a hard day's work, we step back to see what our digging, pulling, pruning, multching and watering has netted and, with dirty hands and scratched forearms, we see a beautiful rose garden.  It wasn't what we envisioned at the outset but we produced a thing worth enjoying by our effort.  Now, the question is:  If we knew about the thorns and weeds would we plant the roses?