I’m an engineer, I program, I code for things to work. There are always two sides for things to work
Exactly! Either it will work - term it as White may be or either it will not work at all - term it as Black. There is no Grey, there is no other color in between. I believe Life should be like this, no midways. You cannot really keep sailing in the ocean, you have to come to one side of the shore.
Decision needs to be deterministic and hence the outcome - either it works or it will not. If they aren’t deterministic, one just keeps on lingering around on each side.
Taking an example, in July 2019, soon after coming back from my birthday and an amazing rock climbing trip, I wanted to go for sabbatical break from professional life for about year and a half. I knew no one in the family and close friends would agree to it and questions pondered upon me related to financials, at the age where all people around me were settling down; I just wanted to do the opposite. I was not deterministic about it; will it work, what happens if I’m short of money, what happens if I don’t get a job? The thought just kept on lingering for almost four months, and I couldn’t really decide! Eventually 2nd December 2019 was the day when I just left the corporate world, living a dirtbag life.
The thought around “what would be the circumstances, what would be the outcome” makes it difficult for a person to make a decision. Who would knew that Covid Pandemic would hit in April 2020 worldwide? The decisions are to be made there and then, you can’t really bring in the past or the future to make a decision. The decisions are made based on the circumstances and conditions prevailing at this very moment; you make it work right now or not!
In short, for me, every decision I have taken, those are all If-Else conditions, either it works or it doesnt. So why we are just lingering around in thoughts? There’s no point to just keep thinking and not doing it, right?
I believe everything is Black and White, either it’s a Tail or Head, or 0 or 1 - Like I said I’m an engineer, I program, I code - I like to play in 0 and 1! Make a decision, either it will work or either it doesn’t and off-course you can retrospect the decision later, but you need to take a step.