Decisions, Decisions

So. Many. Decisions. According to a plethora of internet sources, adults make nearly 35,000 considerably conscious daily decisions, which in my humble opinion is a ridiculous amount. There are of course the basic decisions that must be done in order to fulfill specific responsibilities, this, for example, would be the decisions of what time you set your morning alarm and whether or not you brush your teeth when you wake up. You decide to set your alarm for a specific time so that you get to school or work on time, thus fulfilling that responsibility. Just as it is equally your decision to click snooze and enjoy another 30 glorious minutes of sleep, thus being late for school. These decisions affect very little in the grand scheme of your life, or so that is how it is popularly perceived; although your morning breath, or lack thereof, may not directly impact how you meet your spouse or potential career opportunities, it has full capability OF affecting it, through some seemingly borderline impossible butterfly effect. On the other hand, there are the much larger decisions that are portrayed to us as the most valuable and impactive of all decisions in our life, to get a divorce or work it out, to move to a distant city for a job offer or deny it, to go to college near home or away, decisions, decisions. 

At the end of the day, everything is your choice, until it isn't. You cannot choose what happens to you, but you can control and make the choice to deal with it in a way that perpetually benefits you the most in the long run. The decisions others make are exactly that, their own decisions, and we have absolutely no control over that. There are specific psychological motivations behind each and every decision we make. We decide our religious affiliations, which relationships we hold dear, and what our orientation is to those around us, we make decisions on nearly every aspect of our lives, and the only person making us choose them, is us. Technically, although I seriously do not recommend it, you could go and kill someone or rob a bank, however, you will be put in jail. Despite the consequences of your decision, you are still free to make the decision but along with that choice comes the acceptance of the according secondary repercussions. Point being: You have the decision to drastically change just about anything, you also have the decision to have the effects of your decision either be predominately beneficial or negative to both yourself and those around you. Now that is a lot of decisions. 

There is a lie that is commonly fed to us, "it doesn't matter", but I am the individual who would argue that it does. It does matter if you sleep in 10 minutes for school, it does matter if you don't brush your teeth in the morning (ew), and those decisions matter just as much as the choice to wake up on time and brush your teeth. However, they ultimately matter less in the sum of your life than your decision of career or where you devote your true attention and heart. 

That all being said, I am asking you to decide. Is this the life you want to live? Is this the right path you should be on in order to attain the happiness you so desperately are longing for? Is this the person you want to be, to present to the world? Are these the relationships that you  keep and entertain? Is this the best that you can be? Can you be stronger? Could you be kinder? How are you treating your body? Make a decision and live accordingly, and if you decide to not decide, the lack of decision will haunt you until you do. 

Complacency is the enemy of being able to truly live your life. 

Fallon