Imagine me playing a game of cards, it's hard, it's confusing, and it takes a lot of time to think about what you're doing, because the bottom line is, you don't want to make a mistake. And then you remember, there's a ctrl + z: undo. That's the sweetest discovery you've done in your life. If you make a mistake, you can press those 2 keys, and the game goes back to how it was before you made that choice. And then after playing a while, you lose. Only to get a screen that says, you can either try another game, or press undo to unmake the moves you did. So you choose the second one, and you try, for the sake of it, to press crtl + z more than once. Your inside smiles when you see all your moves go back to a clean slate, depending on how many times you press the keys they've told you.
I think if life had a ctrl + z perhaps I would be less scared of taking decisions. Somewhere I read that Libarians are like that, we hate having to make choices, because even though we have an amazing sense of justice – which I like to think I have – we always consider both choices carefully, afraid to take the wrong one. I guess we can only make moves based on what is the actual situation of the game. Unless you pay very close attention to the deck of cards in front of you, there's only so much you can predict about what'll happen – actually, it's based on those tiny predictions that you make the choices. You look into the future. So where does the fear of making decisions come from? Mistakes will hapen to everyone, and you'll make tons and tons and tons of them in your life, the key is – as I always say to my friends or the people who ask me for advice (once in a blue moon) – to look at mistakes as learning lessons, and not just as mistakes. But what if the mistake is a huge choice of life? Like a career, or the person you want to marry, and then you hate what you're studying halfway through college, and you also divorce. You feel like crap.
Well, a lot of people have made such mistakes (or worse ones) in their lives. And they didn't die. No one said you would, in the first place, but then what happes in you're alive, but your life sucks? Then.... you cope. You learn to look at it as a choice you made and was not the right one, and live your life the best you can, not looking at it as you fucked it up, but as in you make the most out of the life you have. For someone who wants to do something, there'll always be a way; and for those who don't want to, there'll always be an excuse.
The most important thing, is that this is the life. This is how life happens, and unless you actually know every strand of possibilities and their outcomes, you're likely to make mistakes. So go out there, and make decisions, don't let other people make them for you. Inform yourself as much as you can about your choices, and what they would bring. On the deck of cards example, trying to take a good look at the deck of cards before moving is wise. And play, play with passion, play with no fear. Play like there's no tomorrow.
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