Well, here we are, in the NEW YEAR. How about your resolutions? The ever pending question... It seems, that resolutions are there to be broken. But I took only one for this year and will try to keep it faithfully going: taking decisions at the right time, in my time.
There is a saying attributed to Katherine Hepburn, another of my heroes in life:
"What the hell - it might be right, it might be wrong - just do not avoid!"
How right she is. How much time do we lose in our lives in not making decisions? It is a fine art to know the difference of simply not taking a decision because of consideration and decisiveness, or to let things simply happen and take no responsibility and not owning what your decisions are. After all it is your life - and you should take decision in your own little manicured hands? We have produced so many fears and buts and whens during the last 50 years, that decision making has become highly dangerous, or so it seems. If you do that, then a whole avalanche of negative things might happen. Or not.
Deciding what and who one is needs courage - courage to confront oneself in the mirror and recognising what is great about ourselves and what is definitely not so great. We have both in us and with the courage of taking decisions the good parts get stronger, because we define ourselves more and more and the world around us knows with whom to count on in situation which can be tricky.
I speak not of blind deciding ones fate, like getting engaged after 2 weeks, or hanging on to a decision simply because it was made and the fear to get out of it is too big to admit. How often have we hang on to dead decisions which make us not happy, nor will bring us or the people we live with some fruitfulness and happiness. So to speak.
Happy new year!
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