Choice.

Can't be bothered? Then skip it and let what is loudest or most insistent (inside or out) grab your attention, as you allow yourself to be swept along with this attention-demanding flow.  It's incessant, and sometimes you may find it burdensome --- you're so much at the mercy of the waves.  Still, when you pause, you realize that you have a choice.

Edward Espe Brown, from No Recipe: Cooking as Spiritual Practice