Yesterday I conducted an exercise that lead to a very simple epiphany. I listed the top five decisions I have ever made in my life and noticed that all five were laid out in chronological order—the oldest being the most important.
As I sat and thought, the inherent logic became apparent to me. A path is a linear set of choices along a network of roads. The obstacle that you are confronted with now would not have necessarily been there if it wasn’t for the choice you made earlier. Therefore, the earlier the decision the larger the bearing on the situation at hand. Time rules in importance.
I’m very happy to find that my psyche is relatively in line with reality. I say relatively because I chose five “big decisions”, yet I am certain that the biggest decision I may have made in my life may have been something as seemingly insignificant as what I had for breakfast one morning.
It saddens me to think that I may never again make decisions as important as the ones I had when I was younger. And it confuses me that life is set up in such a way that the most important decisions are consistently made by those the least educated on the situation at hand.
