Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Decisions as humans

Every year, every month, every week, every day, every hour, ever minute, every second & every millisecond (i can go on actually but i think you get my point here), we make decisions. Decisions that may be well thought of or merely in a haste. These decisions may end up being the best you've every made, or a nightmare that you wish you could undo.

We make decisions that either our heart or mind or emotions has decided on. We rely on them to point us to the right track and trust them along with our "gut feeling", which i firmly believe is reliant on our heart. I do not agree that emotions and heart are the same thing as sometimes, our emotions are completely irrational and our heart and mind knows this and in our heart, we know and agree that our decision is wrong. So i believe emotions are in a whole other category.

But what if your heart(gut feeling), mind, emotion and even the situation you're in all point you to a different reaction? Then what do you do? One of these categories have the right decision for you. But how do you choose? How do you know what to choose to follow?

This could possibly the worst situation to be in as far as making up your mind and making a decision is concerned. Because THERE IS NO WAY TO KNOW EXACTLY WHICH IS THE BEST FOR YOU!
No matter which you choose to go with, you'll end up second-guessing and doubting yourself. Whether you accept and admit it, at the back of your mind anf in your heart, you know that you'll always be asking yourself, "what if i never made this decision and instead chose to follow my heart/mind/emotion etc.? What would it have been like? Would things have been better? Was this a mistake?" No matter how happy or (especially) unhappy you are, these questions will always be in your mind. Because if you're happy, you'll keep wondering if you could have been happier if you had chosen a different decision/choice. And if you were unhappy... Well that's obvious, init?

Personally, my gut feeling is usually 90% spot-on. Trust me. If you ask people around me who know me well, they'd tell you the same about my gut feelings. But whenever there is a decision to be made, i start doubting my gut-feeling even though it's almost always accurate. Because there's that 10% chance of it being wrong. My fear of my gut feeling failing me ends up being overbearing and i end up making a decision that most often, i regret. Of course there are times where i make decisions not relying on my gut feeling that has worked out pretty well. But...

Well sometimes it's so hard to say which decisions to make that would make us happy and contented. Then again, we're humans. I personally believe that there's no such thing as being contented. We all may say we are at one point or another but truth is, if i were to say that there's something better out there for you, would you stand and say, "nah. Im contented with my life. Theres nothing i'd change. Ive got all i want." Or will you take something better?

Oh humans.....

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