One Apple A Day #269
Choices are often scary. When the road before you splits in two, you have to pick a direction. Sometimes we know where we want to go and how to get there, and choosing is easy. But there are times where we lack clarity, and we have doubts about the destination and how to get there. Or maybe both directions can take us where we want but in different ways. These are the case when it is easy to focus on what we will miss choosing one way or the other. Such dilemmas can be daunting, but they can also be powerful opportunities to grow our self-awareness.
It would be easy to say things like “take the less used road” or “whatever way, it will be the right one” and so on. And if this is what you feel you should do, please do. But these self-explanations are also ways to avoid the dilemma and move on, reassuring ourselves that we made the right decision.
What if you immerse yourself in the dilemma, instead. Not to stand still or to avoid the choice, but to understand why making this decision is so difficult to you. In the end, we made millions of small decisions every moment, most of the time without even think about it. Everything we do, even if we don’t realise it, is a choice.
So why some of them become dilemmas? What is so important in it for you?
Asking yourself those questions. Delving into the emotions connected with the dilemma may open up new possibilities and new ways.