Word of the Week #351:
Weighing your options can be tough, and more so when you are weighing long-term possibilities.
I have seen people struggle to choose an ice cream flavour. That is of course among the easier decisions in life, right? All the flavours are sitting in front of you. You get to look at them, check ingredients, often get a taste, and then compare prices.
Real decisions in real life are so not like that, right?
Sure, you do get to choose
You might think what ingredients might go into a real world situation, but, oh, there can be so many more hiding just beyond your sight… Just like the unnecessary amount of sugar that tends to be in most ice creams, I suppose?
Tasting in the real world doesn’t work the same either. Over time, tastes may change, and you might find yourself stuck with something you can no longer palate. Something that’s aftertaste lingers far too long and mars your appetite forevermore.
And at what cost… What costs are we bearing for the choices we make? And what value are we letting go in the process?
Faced by too many forks in the path, it can be difficult to understand how to keep moving forward, right?
I shall be telling this with a sigh
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
