Today is today.
It's an obvious statement no matter what day of the week, month, or year you read that statement, but each day you define "today" differently. For humans that make actions even slightly different than the day before, that statement is about as obvious as the first.
The thing is we take for granted how important most of our "todays" are. For instance: Today might be for having fun. Today might be for healing. Today might be for working--and I'm sure that's most of you. Today might even be for relaxing. All of those things are relatively easy, because they are basically part of (modern) human habit.
Some "todays," however, call for more important decisions. These are different for everyone. In our daily struggle, we decide on one of three options: 1. Do it. 2. Don't do it. 3. Do something else.
These important decisions/events generally create a ripple-effect in your life. The analytic part of you assesses the consequences--good and bad--that may come from the decision you decided to make for that day. After making that decision you further assess whether you made the right call at the end of the day. These decisions generally have to do with people i.e. not just yourself; not just whether you should have gotten apples instead of oranges at the grocery store. When these decisions have to do with people, it's hard to fix a decision if you assess at the end of the day that the original decision you made was wrong. If it nags at you long enough that you made the wrong decision, then you're probably right. The decision you made is basically making you upset. Not just a "normal" upset, but, rather, one that you don't feel like you can live with. If that's the case, and you can act quick enough and sincere enough, then maybe you can reverse the original decision. Unfortunately, by that point, it's no longer just up to you. It is then up to you and whoever it is you might have faulted.
At that point, you hope they let you back in. You hope they give you another shot. You hope they assess that the decision you made was a mistake, because you know if they don't then you might have lost a great opportunity.
It might even be hard to live with yourself for a while, but one thing is for sure: You'll grow from it. You'll get emotionally stronger, and you'll get better at making analytic decisions that will definitely make you happy instead of ones that simply "might" make you happy.
Life is fickle and fleeting--again, obvious for those that are mortal--which is why each decision needs thought. Every decision has risk factors, but I'd like to believe situational analysis is used to mitigate risk, right?
Maybe not today.
- PatInTheHat
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