If they were right, I’d agree, but it’s them you know not me.
–Cat Stevens/Father and Son
Close calls can be catalysts. Even ones that really aren’t all that close. Even ones that aren’t even yours.
First a catalyst. A decision. Then change.
It’s the decision that is the hard part, at least for me. Once I have decided something, I can live with it. I’ve made some pretty stupid decisions over the years, but I can’t really look back and say that I regret any of them. Nothing too awful has ever happened to me as a result. Some of the people impacted by my decisions might have been hurt initially, but even for them things seem to have worked out.
Good decision making or luck?
I have no clue.
Maybe both.
I don’t know how other people make decisions. I like to say that I go by my gut, or my heart…and that’s probably true in the end..but I put a lot of obsessive thought into any major decision.
My brain tells me all about what is rational, and I do listen to my rational side. When my heart agrees with my brain, it’s simple.
When they disagree?
Usually one side feels more strongly about something than the other. That also make’s things simpler. If my heart really wants something and my brain shrugs. Cool. If my heart thinks it wants something and my brain screams “are you fucking kidding me?” Again, simple.
If it’s a tie?
Hopefully that won’t ever happen.