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Every day, each one of us makes a lot of decisions. Get out of bed? Coffee or not? Buy the shoes? The list of questions and your decisions can go on to infinity if we let it. We also make a lot of important decisions that have far reaching implications. Those aren't done every day, and some are easy because we all have a set of values that define us and we make calm, largely unemotional decisions based on those. Then, there are the other ones. The decisions we make that are purely emotional. The place where logic seems to have no influence and we can't seem to learn from past mistakes or even others and their downfalls.
I've seen a few of these bigger decisions go on around me in the last few months. The decisions I saw were fueled by things like greed, narcissism, indifference, fear and stupidity. Very few decisions were based in love, or kindness, or even whats right and wrong by the standards of society. Some of the decisions I saw drastically lowered the respect I had for some or vanquished it completely, changed the way I live and work and sometimes saddened me greatly.
We've all have to make the decision between what is right, and what is easy. Sometimes we have to look at a person we love and know it's time to walk away, for our own sake. We have to know when we are entrusted to care for someone else, what the right thing is and do it, no matter what the cost to yourself. We need to own our mistakes, and stop waiting for or expecting someone else to fix them. We all have to know too that the decisions we make have led us to where we are. If we are unhappy, only we can change it.
Today is election day in the US, and most of us are making a decision about who to vote for. This isn't a political post, but an introspective one. How do you deal with other peoples' decisions that affect you adversely, or worse, you know are morally wrong? Maybe you've had the eye opening moment where you realized that you and you alone were responsible for your happiness and well-being. What got you there and what did you do to better yourself?
I've seen a few of these bigger decisions go on around me in the last few months. The decisions I saw were fueled by things like greed, narcissism, indifference, fear and stupidity. Very few decisions were based in love, or kindness, or even whats right and wrong by the standards of society. Some of the decisions I saw drastically lowered the respect I had for some or vanquished it completely, changed the way I live and work and sometimes saddened me greatly.
We've all have to make the decision between what is right, and what is easy. Sometimes we have to look at a person we love and know it's time to walk away, for our own sake. We have to know when we are entrusted to care for someone else, what the right thing is and do it, no matter what the cost to yourself. We need to own our mistakes, and stop waiting for or expecting someone else to fix them. We all have to know too that the decisions we make have led us to where we are. If we are unhappy, only we can change it.
Today is election day in the US, and most of us are making a decision about who to vote for. This isn't a political post, but an introspective one. How do you deal with other peoples' decisions that affect you adversely, or worse, you know are morally wrong? Maybe you've had the eye opening moment where you realized that you and you alone were responsible for your happiness and well-being. What got you there and what did you do to better yourself?
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