It can be one of the biggest and most bitter pills of all to swallow.
Realizing that we haven't made decisions we:
a. could have;
b. wanted to but ultimately didn't
c. just plain didn't
What's that line from "Freewill" by RUSH?
Oh ya.
"If you choose not to decide / you still have made a choice."
Outside of a punch in the face, it doesn't get much better than the wisdom of Neal Peart et.al. to sober us up and tell it like it is.
If you choose not to decide / you still have made a choice
Every problem in our lives stems from this paradox.
- Issues at work?
- Relationships not what we'd hoped they'd be?
- Still don't have the business up and running or perhaps it's flatlined?
Each of these conundrums reflects decisions we made -- or didn't. Often with the ongoing hangover of dissatisfaction that keeps us right where we already are.
I've heard it said that a certain kind of personal hell exists for those who stay stuck in indecision.
But what's the alternative?
Too often, the default reaction is to do nothing. To stay exactly where we are.
Stuck in the place of having not decided which then becomes its own decision.
And round and round it goes.
At least that hamster wheel is familiar.
The hard reality is, we have the problems we have because we haven't decided to do something else.
Until we decide to do something else, that's all we'll get.
Running on the same old hamster wheel, going nowhere.
