To Do or Not To Do

Have you realized in life everything is either a yes or no type of question?

Wear this shirt? Eat this chicken strip? Turn left? Marry this person? Take this job?

There rarely is a middle ground. Even if you are picking between two peoples side and you can’t decide, you are still saying “No” to both of them by not picking one of them.

Everything is a yes or no.

Many years ago I started writing. I said yes to picking up a pen, I said yes to scribbling some words, I said yes to keeping it in a tattered notebook.

Many people may not see the correlation, but if I didn’t say yes to that internal question 25 years ago, I may not be where I am today.

Can you look back in your life and see yes or no moments that have led you to where you are now? If you can’t, you’re not looking, because those little decisions from yesteryears ultimately led you to the now.

You don’t know where you would be if you had answered one question differently, but isn’t it astounding to think one question could have had a huge paradigm shift.

It could have been you choosing a chicken strip instead of a hamburger. You may think what big change could happen with that, but the possibilities are endless. You could have struck up a conversation with the woman who handed you the honey mustard packet and…15 years later married with 2 kids.

Each decision can make an impact.

I have a friend who would always say, “everything is connected in God’s tapestry.” And that is so true. Every aspect of our lives is connected with a series of yes or no decisions.

Life is fragile. It’s on a constant scale trying to balance itself, and sometimes it gets out of whack and things crumble.

Many times when I write, I try to have an underlying purpose for my book. I like a good story, but a good message in a good story is a powerful combination.

So, I started toying with an idea a few years ago. What if two characters are having similar experiences, but they are on opposite sides of the spectrum.

In real life I cannot play two roles…but in a book I can. I can have a character to choose yes and see what happens. I can have a character choose no and see what happens. I have the luxury of being all knowing in my imaginary world.

This is the underlying premise of Solomon’s Dreams – The Hunting of Huntington. The main character, Solomon “Solo” Davis, meets a woman, Elizabeth Hyde who has dreams each night. She does nothing with her knowledge. Just waits for her dreams to happen.

Solo starts having dreams and he is compelled to stop the tragedies.

She chooses to do nothing. He chooses to do something.

They each have a reason for their decisions. But which decision is the right one?

If you were someone who knew something bad was going to happen to a stranger, would you choose to help or stay distant? Would you act or stay still? Would you say yes or say no?

In life, we have these moments all the time and we subconsciously answer these yes or no questions without seeing the magnitude of our split second decisions.

But these split second answers could have a lifetime of consequences or rewards.

If given a dream would you act upon it or not?

Maybe something a little easier, tomorrow will you live your life to make someone’s life a little easier? No dream needed. Will you impact someone else in a positive way that could drastically change their life.

You don’t know what your simple yes could do for someone. Who knows, they may be pleading to God right now for someone to say yes and help them.

So, how will you answer?

There is always a question like this to be answered…always.

Peace

No pressure, but if you are interested in reading book 1 of my Solomon’s Dreams series it has recently been re-edited.

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