Choices · Friday January 20, 2006
Life is full of choices. Should you eat mashed potatoes or pasta? Should you save money or buy goods with it? Who to vote for in the election?
Personally I have always been very slow in making decisions. I consider different options carefully if I don’t instantly know what I want. Even so, in some cases I go by intuition and sometimes make even very quick decisions. Usually I have made these kinds of decisions in my head long before the actual choice situation and these are the cases when almost nothing will make me change my mind.
Every day we make new decisions even without noticing. Many of these choices hardly affect our lives in any significant way, but sometimes a small choice can have consequences that are far-reaching.
Let’s take a few examples from everyday life. If you cross the street at the wrong moment, you might get hit a by a car and die. On the other hand, you can win thousands of dollars (or euros or whatever) if you buy a raffle ticket at the right time. So, each one of our actions can have enormous effect on our future, no matter how unbelievable it may sound.
How do you know how your each deed and decision affects your future? Shortly put: you don’t. You just have to be brave and make decisions and not consider too much about the consequences. Usually following your instinct will lead to the best results. Learn to interpret your own inner voice and it will tell you what to do! Besides, wouldn’t it be boring to know every decision’s influence beforehand?
Some of you might have thought (because of what I wrote in the beginning of this thought) that I would tell who you should vote for in the Finnish presidential election. Oh no, I am not going to go easy on you! Each and every one of you is free to make his/her own decision about who to vote for or not to vote all. (I don’t recommend the latter option, because I see that a person who doesn’t vote, does not have the right to complain about the result.) Use your consideration…
How easy making decisions and choices is for you? Which are the toughest decisions to make? Do you trust your instinct?
[This article was originally posted on wadeweb.info .]
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