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Decisions always tough to make
By Britt Johnsen
Published:
Thursday, May 1, 2003
Britt Johnsen -- Staff Essay
White or wheat? Diet or regular? Jeans or khakis? Mac or PC? To be or not to be?
Decisions are not always the easiest to make. Yet we make these decisions, ranging from minute to complex, and they affect how our life will play out.
How one comes to these decisions is completely personal and dictated upon the situation. Maybe you are allergic to aspartame and can't order diet pop; maybe your favorite jeans have a fresh hole in them; maybe you just hate Macs and would never have one if your life depended on it. Either way, decisions are made depending on previous experience.
But there are other decisions that are just as important or unimportant and have the ability to affect the rest of your life.
As a child, many of our decisions were made for us: what to eat, what to wear, where to go to school and what examples are given to us by which we should follow in order to become the people we are to become.
As adults, we are thrust into the "real world" upon age, situation or status in the world. We may have been forced to begin making decisions as early as the first sign of independence, or maybe we're still having decisions being made for us today.
But there are some decisions we just need to make for ourselves no matter where we live, how old we are or what our lives are like.
I, for one, have been faced with many important decisions to make that will surely affect the rest of my life.
One decision which has recently been made has been decided after much debate and can be looked at as a terrifyingly wonderful opportunity; at the same time that it's exciting and new, it is also very scary to not be sure of what its repercussions will be.
I have decided to attend college at a different university.
After living in the same town for 20 years, I need to try something new. There are new experiences to be had and different places to go. But who knows if my fate surely lies in this new town at this new college?
That is the terrifying aspect of this particular decision. But that's the idea around which decisions revolve: you don't ever know if you've made the right decision.
It's the same thing I hear from parents. Mine, as well as others, never know if they've made the right decisions in bringing up their children; they sometimes doubt whether they should have had children at all or if how they raised them was right.
Same story with college students. It's hard to know if one has chosen the right college. It's also hard for many to decide on a major. And once such decisions are made, it's often hard to tell if it is the right decision.
And one may not necessarily ever know if they have made the right decisions.
Maybe the meal a person chooses to eat will entail a wretched sickness; maybe the new car a person buys will blow up on them; maybe the person one chooses to date will be true love.
There are chances that people take and experiences people have for a reason.
Decisions made aren't always the best ones, but they aren't always the worst ones either. A person just has to trust their instincts and make the decision most logically (or what seems most logical to the specific situation).
And remember that no matter who a person is, where one lives and what that person has experienced, decisions are not always the easiest to make. Some of the best decisions have been made by risks being taken.
From parents to students to restaurant patrons, decisions, from the minute to the complex, are always tough to make. What needs to reign is perseverance and open-mindedness.
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