the wrong choices

I liked this short essay from Suzette Haden Elgin's blog this morning:

Over and over again, instead of choosing what I knew perfectly well that I ought to do, I chose an alternative that was easier for me, or safer for me; over and over again, I chose for my own comfort. I did what I wanted to do instead of what I knew I should do. I did a lot of skillful rationalizing, but I knew what I was doing. And every single time I did that, I was making my own small contribution to the vast global web of circumstances that has brought us to the current situation.