"Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it"

Every day offers a series of choices that define the quality and direction of our lives. Kevyn Aucoin emphasizes the profound agency that exists in simple, daily decision-making, the way every morning presents an opportunity to intentionally select the emotional lens through which life is viewed. Amid the inevitable complexities and unpredictabilities each day may hold, the power to choose joy or happiness, or even to sit with discomfort and pain, remains a uniquely human freedom.

By consciously opting for life, Aucoin frames existence as an active rather than passive experience. Joy and happiness are not merely unforeseen gifts; negativity and pain are not unavoidable burdens; rather, they are options on a richly varied emotional palette. The ability to decide, even amid hardship, to embrace life fully, acknowledges both the light and dark aspects of human experience. It is an act of courage to accept that pain or negativity may arise and to recognize their role in shaping depth, understanding, and resilience.

Aucoin finds liberation in the acceptance of personal imperfection and the continuing possibility of both mistakes and new choices. Instead of shying away from error or denying difficult feelings, habits that can easily become numbing or self-defeating, he suggests embracing human fallibility. This embrace is not resignation but an affirmation of humanity in its totality. To feel life fully means experiencing it without censorship: to be open to laughter and tears, growth and error, contentment and discomfort.

Choosing to feel life each day is a conscious rejection of numbness and denial. It is an invitation to presence, vulnerability, and growth. By greeting the morning with intention, one honors personal humanity, empowering the self to live in authenticity and compassion, continuously engaging with the richness of existence rather than retreating from it.