Let’s talk about choice. Consider choosing between two dishes you absolutely love. What would you choose? You end up choosing one of the two because you love both. You’re happy, though not gratified with what you chose only because there was a high possibility for the other one to be just as delicious. That’s when grapes are not sour.
Suppose you had to choose between two dishes you hate. It’s like devil or the deep blue sea. You choose the better of the two, only thinking it’s better. It might be just as bad. There’s nothing you can possibly do after you’ve made a choice because you already have. It’s plausibly a fruitless task to choose between stuff where rationality fails and probability takes over.
A choice is hard to make only if there is one. If there's no choice, it's absolute struggle. Conviction beats everything then and you tend to harness every tinge of dedication towards that one thing that came to you, the one thing you embraced when you were left with no choice. That one thing is bliss if that’s what you wanted all your life. But what if it isn’t? What if you had something else in mind and now you know there’s no ‘something else’? There’s just this one thing which is dying to be yours. You just adopt and adapt.
Choice or no choice is itself a choice. If you choose to have no choice, then you pretty much are clear about what you want. If you choose to be open to choice then there inevitably is a large pool of choices that jumps in, surreptitiously exploiting you. But sometimes weighing pros and cons helps instead of choosing to be relentlessly focused on just one thing. The one thing might not even be worth that very focus towards it.
Radical thinking takes you through everything. If this seems more beneficial, you go for it. But is radical thinking completely devoid of prejudice? Suppose you have either A or B. You lay down parameters to compare the two things, measure feasibility and then very easily convince yourself to choose one. But what’s funny is that your target was to convince yourself of something that you'd already chosen in the subconscious. That’s a consequence of prejudice. It’s like flipping a coin. Just when you flip the coin, you realize what you really wanted. And if the outcome is not in your favour, you change the rules to best of three and then to five till you get there.
Maybe there is an emotional aspect to choice, which is not palpable in most cases. Whether it’s good or bad is dependent on individual perspective and circumstances. Even if there seemingly is no choice, there inevitably is one within you; between your heart and mind. One says, “Take it!! Take it!!”; The other says, “Nah, Leave it”. That’s like choosing between one thing and nothing. Which one will you choose?
Suppose you had to choose between two dishes you hate. It’s like devil or the deep blue sea. You choose the better of the two, only thinking it’s better. It might be just as bad. There’s nothing you can possibly do after you’ve made a choice because you already have. It’s plausibly a fruitless task to choose between stuff where rationality fails and probability takes over.
A choice is hard to make only if there is one. If there's no choice, it's absolute struggle. Conviction beats everything then and you tend to harness every tinge of dedication towards that one thing that came to you, the one thing you embraced when you were left with no choice. That one thing is bliss if that’s what you wanted all your life. But what if it isn’t? What if you had something else in mind and now you know there’s no ‘something else’? There’s just this one thing which is dying to be yours. You just adopt and adapt.
Choice or no choice is itself a choice. If you choose to have no choice, then you pretty much are clear about what you want. If you choose to be open to choice then there inevitably is a large pool of choices that jumps in, surreptitiously exploiting you. But sometimes weighing pros and cons helps instead of choosing to be relentlessly focused on just one thing. The one thing might not even be worth that very focus towards it.
Radical thinking takes you through everything. If this seems more beneficial, you go for it. But is radical thinking completely devoid of prejudice? Suppose you have either A or B. You lay down parameters to compare the two things, measure feasibility and then very easily convince yourself to choose one. But what’s funny is that your target was to convince yourself of something that you'd already chosen in the subconscious. That’s a consequence of prejudice. It’s like flipping a coin. Just when you flip the coin, you realize what you really wanted. And if the outcome is not in your favour, you change the rules to best of three and then to five till you get there.
Maybe there is an emotional aspect to choice, which is not palpable in most cases. Whether it’s good or bad is dependent on individual perspective and circumstances. Even if there seemingly is no choice, there inevitably is one within you; between your heart and mind. One says, “Take it!! Take it!!”; The other says, “Nah, Leave it”. That’s like choosing between one thing and nothing. Which one will you choose?
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