Making decisions is inevitable, in fact, they're proof of existence. We make decisions even when we think we're not, provided our thoughts are active and we're faced with challenges that come with our realities.
Decision-making is one of the most unique things about people, especially because a lot of people can collectively make the same decisions and the impact of their choices will still affect them differently.
This is why our lives work differently, our backgrounds, emotional maturity, history, race, nationality, or even gender are some of the reasons why our decisions irrespective of how it appears the same can still have different effect.
Failure Is A Possibility
However, we all aim to achieve better results whenever we make decisions, but one reason why failure will always be part of that possibility is that we do not know the future, we're banking on what we think we know and hope they don't flip and turn out differently.
However, we can never guarantee that the things we bank on to make decisions will ever remain as they are. This is why the most salient ingredient in decision-making is hope.
The reason why it's hope is that it's not in our hands that everything we desire works. The fact that some of our decisions depend on other people to work is why there's a possibility of failure because humans are unpredictable.
Sometimes, people are luckier than others
There are times we've counted ourselves extremely lucky, and there are times luck isn't just on our side.
In life, we're Meant to be Lucky and unlucky, and because we cannot control when any of these possibilities happens to us, we can only hope that life accord us more luck.
As a person, most of my life decisions have always revolved around my health condition. This is because working towards staying alive and being healthy truncates every other aim and objective.
Because of this, I've lost out on so many good things in life, I've lost the opportunity to truly experience the beauty of life; be with the people I truly want to be with, say the things I truly want to say or unlock some certain potentials that could bring some of my goals to life.
This is to say that choosing solidity comes with disadvantages, but when there's life, every other outcome is possible. I value the gift of life a lot and this is because I've faced a lot of situations where I nearly lost mine because of my health conditions.
This means there are certain choices I cannot make because I need to first weigh the consequences before the advantages
There are disadvantages to everything good in life, most of the time, we hardly take note of it because we're too focused on the advantages.
One of the things I've realized is that the mind of man is limitless and this is because this is where thousands of possibilities are woven.
However reality is always different from our imagination, no matter strong we are mentally, there are things we cannot achieve without our physical resolve, this is why we mostly imagine superlative things but our reality is nowhere near the things we imagine.
People mostly make decisions based on what they think is best for them
Sometimes we see their decision as foolishness from a third person's point of view, but the only way we can truly understand their decision is to be faced with their reality; have the same weakness as them, share the same health conditions as them, family background or even understand their perspective.
In reality, there are times we doubt our decisions, but in the end, we find comfort in doing the right thing. Life is majorly about compromise unless you have every ingredient to building the reality you want.
I feel that as humans we're not completely blessed with everything we want, be it good looks, good health, money, time, or success. Life puts us in positions where we always have to make compromises and while we might not exactly bend our lives to the reality we want, we take solace in achieving the primary things we need to survive. There are things I always wish I could do, knowing I might not be able to do them is painful. Life offers us possibilities, which we might not be strategically poised to take advantage of.
Sometimes, we make decisions to never go for what we want and sometimes we never give ourselves enough credit for making such sacrifices. Sacrificing happiness for stability is what we mostly face on a daily, and the opportunity cost of whatever compromise we choose is mostly underestimated and this is how we know we're superhumans.
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