life choice
Major personal decision
A life choice is a significant decision that shapes one's path—career, marriage, where to live, whether to have children.
The phrase often carries judgment, implying the decision was voluntary and its consequences deserved: Being gay isn't a life choice.
Someone might defend an unconventional path as a life choice I don't regret.
- careerLifelong occupational pursuit
- turnRotational movement
- stepFoot movement forward
- retirementLeaving the workforce permanently
- pathRoute for traveling
major milestone · crossroad · happiness · fork · marriage · settling down · tradeoff · boundaries · parenthood · authenticity · road · self-discovery · personal growth · soul searching · goals · priorities · values · sacrifice
- decisionsmake a decision, yes, no, alternatives, maybe
- crossroadscrossroads, fork in the road, fork in road, junction, juncture
life choicefate
Predetermined course of events
destiny · accident · happenstance · circumstance · inevitability
life choicewhim
Sudden arbitrary desire
impulse · passing fancy · snap decision · caprice · snap judgment
life choiceimpulse
Sudden urge to act
whim · snap decision · knee-jerk reaction · rash decision · caprice
life, choice, lives, live, lived, living, lively, livelihood, lifelike