THE AGONY OF DECISION

THE AGONY OF DECISION It’s often said that a decision has to marinate before we can make it. But is that really true? We can never have all the facts and information to make a decision because if we did, it wouldn’t be a decision but a foregone conclusion. Each one of us is caught up in a state of indecision at one point in our lives. Being caught between a rock and a hard place. That’s very normal. But the problem comes when we cannot quite arrive at a decision because we claim we don’t have enough information- called the agony of decision-making. Sometimes we cry out with the indiscriminate plea-do something-anything-just do something. It is quite okay to make decisions for some of them to be wrong. But it’s quite detrimental, at least to you to just sit around and do nothing. Sometimes we have already made the decision in our minds but are not sure why we made those choices. It’s held that there is nothing like indecision. You either decide or decide NOT to decide. I agree with that school of thought. The only reason we seem undecided is because we are seeking to know we made that choice. This is more often than not a futile exercise. I believe in our bid to be at peace with ourselves we should first seek to listen to our innerself. That inner voice that speaks to us. If the choices we make in our daily life, about friends, about partners, about careers, about thought patterns satisfy our spiritual needs and are not necessarily harmful to society, then for goodness sake lets make them. There’s only one basic human right, the right to do as we please so long as it does not harm anyone. With it carries the only basic responsibility, the responsibility of being ready to accept the consequences of our actions. Lets us endeavor to be happy. Lets is seek friends, careers, and partners who make us achieve inner bliss. Let us understand that there will never be anything that is universally acceptable by all as good for us. Let us be borrow a leaf from the old adage; ‘one man’s meat is patently another’s poison. But above all let’s be guided by the golden rule; Never do unto others that which you wouldn’t like to be done to you. Then and only can we be at peace with ourselves BY CHRIS K. KIHARA