Life... its all about the choices aint it... To be precise, every little silly decision we take can and will go on to have impossible to foresee consequences that bite us in the buttock area. This makes for some very sticky situations and very few have the courage and the will power to stand strong behind their decisions. Every minute of our lives we are taking decisions, but sadly only some of us have the foresight and/or the experiences to be able to take the right ones. But then again, is there really anything such as a right decision? Sometimes we come across the proverbial 'Sophie's choice', when both sides of the coin appear so similar that deciding on one of the choices becomes harder than life itself.
Morals are an easy way out of some decisions. They are a terrific guide when one is choosing, one's friends for example. But suppose one has to choose between friends. Now here lies the great dilemma. How is one supposed to choose between friends, even if our morals clearly point to one over the other? Even if it were so easy, once the heart has made a bond with someone, unless some great injustice has happened to one, such choices are not easy to make. Also the foreboding of having to rue one's decision later makes it all the tougher to choose.
Most of us have been on both ends of this balance. Sometimes we made the right choices, and sometimes we didnt. The good ones left a few happy memories, but the bad ones almost always leave a bitter taste in the mouth that lingers on for years afterwards. Although in both cases, the experience is invaluable, in that it leaves us wiser and also more appreciative and sympathetic to someone else in the same curry that we once were. Some people become overly cautious and unable to ever take such decisions again, for the bad memories from the previous such experience haunts them. Very few people actually use this information to take the right decision the next time the choice comes along.
In the end, the matter of right or wrong in any choice is highly debatable. Most people do what seems right to them at that moment in their lives, because frankly, life is too short to spend too much worrying about all our decisions. This does not mean that I am calling for spontaneous ill-thought out decisions. It just means we have to let go of our apprehensions and just let our hearts lead the way sometimes.
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