Choice
Every betrayal has a moment before it… A quiet choice that nobody noticed….
The story
Julius Caesar was one of the most powerful figures in the entire Roman history. Intelligent, ambitious and charismatic character. He was elected as consul of the empire multiple times. Eventually he rose to become the dictator of Rome.
But his growing power frightened the senate. Many feared that the republic would fall and king-like rule would return.
On March 15 44 BC Julius Caesar walked into the senate. He was surrounded by men he knew, men he trusted, men he once considered friends. and they stabbed him…
In shakespeare’s telling, he fought back until he saw one of the faces in the crowd: “Brutus.” He was shattered and the famous words came: “Et Tu Brute?” (You too Brutus?).
His wound isn’t the knife…But who’s holding it…
To Caesar, Brutus was like a friend and treated him as a son.
The story we forget
We remember Brutus as the villain… But he didn’t wake up one morning and want to betray him… Brutus loved Caesar, yet he also believed something bigger than friendship… the idea that no one should rule everyone…
So he faced a choice with no easy answer… Loyalty to a Person? or Loyalty to a Principle he believed in?…
But in doing so, He lost both… Later conspirators were hunted, Rome fell into civil war and the republic he wanted to save was gone anyway.
Brutus died by his own sword…
Think about this for a minute…
Did Brutus make the wrong choice?… he wouldn’t choose the same choice if he had known the outcome….
He lost because both his choices cost him everything…
We believe everything we do is always a right thing….but it never should be….
We might be someone’s Caesar…. We might be someone’s Brutus….. I think it was never simply about right or wrong…
I’ll always ask myself before making a difficult choice…
What am I protecting?… What am I willing to lose?…. Can I live with it even if I’m wrong?….
Because every choice has a cost…So, make your choice carefully…….
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visit:http://nationalgeographic.com/history/article/caesar-brutus-murder-ides-of-march