Musings of the Mind: Of Choices and Right Decisions

You might wonder as to what this post is all about, because you were expecting a Apps-DBA-Tech-Stuff post and this one is far from being a tech post.

Nevertheless, I am sure life presents each one of us with different choices almost at every step in our lives. However, not often we get into the mode of sweating it out to make the right choices out of the convoluted ones and there by making the right decisions. This is so, I believe, because the choices presented in front of us make that task easy. In other words, it is easy to pick the 'obvious' one. What really puts one under tremendous stress and pressure is when all the available choices have their own significant merits and significant demerits, that it becomes difficult to choose one. It is like having to choose between my engineering exam questions 1a and 1b OR 2a and 2b, each pieces carrying 10 marks, where albeit my wish that i would love to answer 1a AND 2b, that would not be allowed. This is especially true when the choices pertain to ones life and will chart the course of ones future - with no option of returning back - kind of one way street.

I think this is when one has to start analysing the choices against the backdrop of the knowledge of the consequences of making a choice. Let go of things over which we have no control. Focus on things which are under our control. Seek answers from the innerself. Apply past experiences. Seek expert assistance. Confide in your friend, partner. Then go ahead, make a decision, because there are no right or wrong decisions - only consequences. Embrace the consequences with open arms, for that was the best you could do, under "those" circumstances. After all, we are human and no Oracle!

- Aravind Kamath