I cannot remember a particular instance in which I have been given a choice like those choices that the people involved in this exhibit have. I have not saved a community, abstained from helping a person on the subway because of my race, or started a worldwide organization. I am just another person on this Earth. Not everyone can be famous. Not everyone can do things that really affect the world.
However, I have been faced with a couple of choices in my life. Not the little ones, like should I eat this sandwich now or later? Should I wear the dark blue jeans or the black ones? The choices I have made are the choices like laughing at people behind their backs, insulting them, making rude jokes, and other bad things that supposedly stain the fabric of your soul. This brings up the popular question: What’s worse? Knowing or not knowing?
Whenever we make bad choices, we try to give ourselves excuses. For example, the ever popular, “Well, they did it first!”. Doing something in retaliation to something someone else did to you does not make the crime okay. Fighting fire with fire sometimes doesn’t work. To be a better person, you let the bad things roll off your back, put on the poker face, and keep moving on. This is how I think of it: one day, I might be the CEO of a multi-million dollar company. And those people that I insulted because they insult me everyday? Well, hopefully they’ll be paying for their actions.