Decisions

Decision making is always the bone of contention for lot of folks; it definitely is for me...
When we start to look at the number of decisions which we make in our day to day life it really outnumbers everything else. The irony of this is that we dont have time enough to actually stop and ponder on each of these decisions. The essential character of a person, for the most part, is synonymous with decision making, however very few people give decisions/calls the credence they deserve.

It is when we get up, what we wear, where we go and so on and so forth kind of decisions which define our day, week, month, year and essentially our life. Although the number of decisions which we take is daunting most of the decisions are etched in our understanding because of long training, understanding and that is why we dont notice them. I would classify these decisions as easy ones, with no importance attached.

Then there are those which we take rarely, like whom should I invite to the party?, wher eshould we go for the year end vacation?, etc. etc. These are decisions which we take on a regular basis, give some importance to and thus I classify them as medium difficult.

Then there the toughest ones which we brood over for long and are still unsure of what to do... These are the ones which decide what course our life takes and it is really difficult to comprehend.

We usually shy away from taking big, difficult decisions; but this only adds up to the problem and does not solve anything. Moreover, as much as we delay our difficult decisions we actually end up in not making decisions and leaving things to circumstances/destiny/God/life whatever you want to call it. In effect, we lose control over our own life. (This is what I hate most)


I usually break down the toughest decision into the small parts and only look at things which are in my control. It doesnt make sense to me that we spend our good time over things which are beyond our control, so i just try to evaluate and take decisions on stuff which is still under my control. The good or bad aspect of this is (depending on the view point) that the things under my control for any given decision changes with time.

Faislon se likhi jaati hai kahani zindagi ki, faislon se peeche mat bhago...