NATURAL SELECTION; CONSEQUENCES AND OTHER THINGS
Sunday, September 12, 2021
Decisions, rescissions, recalculating, un-deciding, un-rescinding, calculating-over-again – some are snap-simple; others, delayed-agony – ones we turn over and over.
I find I’ve shifted into making more quick decisions and painfully drawn-out ones too. It doesn’t seem to matter if they are major decisions of inconsequential ones – it’s not about necessary v. unimportant, as much as it’s clear v. uncertain.
The decision, once made, can always be reversed upon appeal to my inner high court of gut-twisting, but a decision, if already announced, cannot be put back in the undecided column without consequences.
What it’s like, in that choosing moment, is like deciding I want an ice-cream cone. Different than making a lifestyle choice. Like the difference between choosing a garment to wear v. selecting a garment to buy.
Most choices are consequences of something we decided long ago.