Made Up Mind.
I believe today more than ever before, we have all been in situations where we have been forced to make a decision.
Am not talking about the simple kind of decisions of whether Mc Donald’s or Chick-fil-A is the better option? tea or coffee? milk or just water? exercise or just go on a diet? sleep or go out?….this are some of the regular decisions we make almost every day but am talking about major decisions, the complex kind which ends up changing our lives forever.
In life, one way or the other we have to face this ‘’Monster’’ I call makes the decision.
A decision is either wrongly made or rightfully made and whatever stand we take at the end of it all we need to accept and deal with it.
The moment we wake up we are already making decisions, decisions whether to snooze the alarm, the decision whether to shower or not shower, the decision whether we should wake up and go to work early or just lie down and be late, the decision to call the person you have a problem with or text asking for forgiveness and the other decision not to, the decision to stay angry at a friend or just talk to them and free yourself from a narcissist developing nature, the decision to love and not hate, the decision to forgive and hold on to a grudge and become the unforgiving person, Decision to pray about it instead of fussing emotionally over the issue.
Our lives every day, are made out of decisions, me writing right now came out of a decision I made. We sign contracts everyday pertaining to work or acquiring goods for services or service for goods out of a decision, we get married or rather agree to be in a relationship based on a decision, political parties, religion, policies, laws, astrological exploration, history all these are our decisions as human beings and for some countries, well, the weather is also a decision determined by the Government and meteorologist who decide for the city or town if it should rain or stay dry.
I’ll just dive right into it…..
Wisdom I read somewhere is a flower that doesn’t grow in everyone’s garden, so are many other essential attributes that enhance life etiquette.
Some people associate wisdom with the number of books and credentials we receive from school, I don’t disapprove of that for sure, I believe so much in Education — Educating and know certainly that there is so much I wouldn’t have known if I didn’t go to school and acquire knowledge.
African society for instance we are taught to respect our elders, there is no argument about that and this has been instilled in our generation strongly through the child’s growth process because we believe that with age comes wisdom, and the more we adhere to this culture the easier it is for us to fit in our socio-economical life and it is proven for a fact and I have witnessed it first-hand. Knowing for sure some of my elderly neighbors, associates, relatives, friends & Family Friends are very important especially when it comes to decision making, please note this doesn’t apply everywhere, wisdom doesn’t always come with age or maturity.
Wisdom, however, is very essential if we need to make a decision and this can be obtained through us doing our personal analysis of our self-being, also by consulting elders or people who have had experience and especially involving the people surrounding you can assist in making decisions, our life experiences and lessons at the end of it all help us to stand firm in making decisions.
The decisions we make prepare us for a life of accountability, knowing for a fact that we are going to be held responsible over the outcome of the decision making and that’s why I mentioned Wisdom knowing that it is essential in our day-to-day decision making.
If you are reading this your old enough to understand that there are decisions we have already made that are not right our conscience tell us so and for some of us the Spirit confirms it, and there are also those decisions we have made and we are proud of and definitely look forward to making more rightful once in the future.
The same way there is only Black and White is the same thing with decision-making whereby we only have either the right or wrong decision.
But over the years growing up I have come to understand that the definition of a certain concept works so much for the person who defines it — the power lies with that person so a wrong decision can be done right to make it right and vice versa.
When you think about the importance of decision making we understand for instance that we are who we are because of the decision our parents made and whether it was good or bad then that’s for you to know but the decision was made already and if you look deeply into the whole situation I best I believe that one understands the fact that you made it this far and still are pushing yourself swiftly through life with or without your parents means they made a perfect decision to have you.
The other side of making a good decision is making a wrong one, and with this in mind, we have to agree there are consequences.
How best do we deal with critical decisions, determines which path we end up on at the end of it and especially since wisdom is required for us to do
am convinced now more than ever that it requires Strength, Courage and Wisdom are the basic essentials in decision making, yet again we all have the choice to make the decision to choose these elements to change our ways of making decisions, or not.
~Me.
I am so thankful I had the strength and promises of a loving God to guide my choices and decision and to uphold me through unbelievably dark days and times of overwhelming sorrow
- Zig Ziglar