Decisions, Decisions.
We make so many decisions every day. I just tried to count the number of decisions I made today and I gave up because I immediately lost count. Right from deciding how many times to snooze the alarm to how many halloween candies to eat. Deciding what to write about and which blogger’s post to read. How many stars to rate the Whatsapp call I just made and which book to download in the Libby app. Decisions, decisions and more decisions. So many of them are taken without us being aware of it, in an autopilot mode.
We are supposed to make around 35,000 decisions in a day. It is definitely an alarming number of decisions that we make. I double checked the number written on the website. It does say 35,000. (link to the website is HERE) All decisions are not life-altering or significantly consequential ones. But nevertheless they are decisions that we make. The ability to choose or make decisions is an incredible power that we possess. A power that all of us must acknowledge and appreciate.
Even though every decision is not a life-altering one, every choice made today, shapes our tomorrow. A choice made today is a habit tomorrow. So that decision made to click or not click the snooze button of the alarm clock which gives us a choice to sleep more or wake up, is shaping our habit of being a late riser or an early riser tomorrow.
Today, a lot of parents are faced with the decision of sending their kids to school or continuing with an online learning mechanism. Both of them have their pros and cons. The decision has to be made depending on the current statistics, the child’s physical and emotional health, the projected numbers of virus infected people in the neighborhood and the city, school’s preparedness with regard to sanitization and social distancing etc etc. It is a tough decision to make and there is no right or wrong way of doing it. Every parent will make the decision that seems the right thing to be done for their child’s physical and emotional well being.
In spite of making the seemingly right decision, we may end up with consequences that are neither ideal nor desired. How do we handle it then? I was thinking about it and then I heard something that I literally hung on to.
“Whatever be the outcome, do not be hard on yourself”
This sentence stuck with me and I thought it is something that can be applied across all decisions we make. Whatever the outcome, we can decide and choose to be accepting of it. Deciding at that time, to not beat oneself up. To say it is ok. The outcome is not what we intended to have, but let us make a decision to move on to the next decision.
After all, we have 34,999 more to go.
Thank you for making a decision to read the blog…..
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Comments
What a lovely lovely post.
I’m glad I made the sound decision of clicking on your post link. 😊
That’s one among the 35,000 i guess!
And i really loved the ‘whatever rhe outcome, do not be hard on yourself’ part too.
Thank you Radhika. Glad you stopped by. Me too. When I heard that, I knew I had to write about it and make it a reality for myself.
Lovely read, dear Deepa. Thought provoking.
I really liked the way you ended your post.Cheers.
Thank you so much Ramya. Am glad you liked it.
The one decision that propelled my life to a next level was to subscribe your blog… and of course this is one among 35000… really proud and glad…. 🥰🥰🥰
Thank you Sanu. Those are big words and they mean so much to me. I will always try to live up to your expectations.
I hadn’t thought about it that way, but you’re right. With so many decisions to make, we really do need to learn to forgive ourselves when a decision leads to an outcome we don’t want.
Thanks Ann. Yes, we often decide to beat ourselves up for making a bad decision. And, that is not a good decision either. 🙂
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