Decide Your Choices

Life is made of few decisions, but many choices. Every decision we make moves us forward, stops us, or sets us back. The paths along which we advance or regress are part of our choices.

Every decision should be made through deliberate thinking, counsel, sharing with family, and — last — your feelings.

It's clear that our decisions carry both a bonus and a burden. We should already be used to this. We must consider which bonuses we desire and which burdens we can bear.

In that sense, we must avoid being like a woman who was forced into a decision but looked back and turned into a statue. Her body went; her heart stayed.

When the body goes but the heart stays, you're paralyzed. Remember — sometimes the heart also needs to submit to our decisions. It can deceive us.

Beyond our decision-making, we also need to make our choices. And those are complicated.

In today's world, choices have multiplied exponentially. You can be anything you want, and you end up being nothing you intended.

Everything is available, but you reach nothing because you can't own the choices you've made — perhaps because you're watching someone who made a different choice and seems to be doing well.

Your choices are liquid, as a certain philosopher would say — but they need to freeze. Close your eyes to the many promises of the virtual world and realize that when the device is turned off, all that's left is you and the confusion of many choices and no decisions.