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There’s no right choice (so stop beating yourself up about it).
When people ask me
‘How do I make the right choice?’
I almost always reply with
‘When will you know what the right choice IS?’
Because, well, that is just a fair response.
We don’t know.
We will never know.
How could we?
Is it a week after the REALLY IMPORTANT decision?
Five-and-a-half minutes?
Two years?
A lifetime?
Five billion lifetimes?
We just don’t know.
And like with so many things (which makes it even more bizarre): choices don’t really exist in the world.
Choices are a complete mental fabrication.
They fully rely on your imagination.
They consist of isolating a couple of things in your head and then creating the pressure of having to pick one.
The perfect one, of course.
The best one.
The one you will never regret.
But that is just really unfair, and unrealistic.
