I Choose

Because you never know where life is gonna take you,

And you can't change where you've been,

But today, I have the opportunity to choose.

Here I am looking at thirty, and I got so much to say.

I gotta get this off of my chest.

I gotta let it go today.

I was always too concerned with what everbody would think,

But I can't live for everybody.

I gotta live my life for me.

I've reached a fork in the road of my life.

Ain't nothing gonna happen unless I decide.

I choose

To be the best that I can be.

I choose

To be authentic in everything

I do

My past don't dictate who I am

I choose

I done been through some painful things.

I thought that I would never make it through.

Built up with shame from the top of my head to the soles of my shoes.

I put myself in so many chaotic circumstances.

By the grace of god I've been given so many second chances,

But today I decided to let it all go.

I'm dropping these bags I'm making room for my choice.

I choose

To be the best that I can be.

I choose

To be authentic in everything

I do.

My past don't dictate who I am.

I choose.

Because you never know where life is gonna take you,

And you can't change where you've been,

But today I have the opportunity to choose.

Release the guilt about what things have been the way they do

'Cause life is gonna do what it do,

And today I have the opporutnity to choose

From this day forward I'm going to be exactly who I am.

I don't need to change the way that I live just to get a man.

I even had a talk with my mama, and I told her the day I'm grown,

From this day forward every decision that I make will be my own.

I choose

To be the best that I can be.

I choose

To be courageous in everything

I do.

My past don't dictate who I am.