Decisions, decsions, decisions

Never hesitate. Too many times people, good people, let their brain be clouded by irrelevant matters when making a decision. This cloudy brain leads to unnecessary hesitation and this hesitation, more often then not, results in a bad or unforeseen outcome.

Examples:

1. Approaching a relatively crowded restaurant, a couple is asked if they would like a table:
At this point the gentleman lets call him Dick, begins to think “Well this place looks nice but then again we did have that great fishing trip to the Keys.” What? While at the same time his lady friend, lets call her Jane, thinks “What is Dick doing, why can’t we ever seem to be happy in bed?” Again, what? During this brief mental interlude the table they were being offered was taken by a more active decision minded couple. Now Dick and Jane are left with the option to put their name on list and wait for a table, which they quickly decline and go off to fight about why they couldn’t have just sat down. This fight will inevitably lead to a discussion of Dicks ineptitudes in bed thereby leading to the eventual disintegration of the relationship.

2. Crossing the street:
When deciding to cross the street when the little orange hand is blinking – put aside the internal discussion of what kind of salad sandwich combination you will have for lunch and asses the situation, “Will I make it? Will I have to run? Will it look foolish if I run and didn’t really have to? Will I be stuck in traffic if I don’t hustle?” Two seconds is all you have at this point. The third second of hesitation will result in either being stuck standing on the corner finding a way to play off the fact that you now could have made it but didn’t because you hesitated or being stuck in the middle of traffic like a boob. This blow to your daily confidence will manifest itself all day. Again rearing its head at the deli as you back into having an egg salad sandwich from a place you have never been before that turns out to have celery in it and have a bad salad to bread ratio. This bad ratio combined with poor commitment on a second bite leads to egg salad exiting the back of the sandwich and onto your new BR flat fronts. No way to start a day.

Think quickly; pull the trigger, live with the consequences. Life is full of chances that can be wasted while you think, should or shouldn’t I. Either way, decide and go with it. You can always make another decision later to correct the initial faulty one but either way two decisions are always better than not at all.

Stay up and active,
CtH

PS and incidentally, Dick’s sexual performance ineptitudes can be traced back to his indecisive nature and generally being a sissy.