Decisions Decisions...

Avid followers of my Google Talk status will notice that I have had the title of this piece as my status for the last few weeks.
Indeed, it is a point in time where I am faced with multiple options and paths and need to decide and embark upon one of them. Each path, filled with its own promises of success and risks of failure, with some knowns and several unknowns, with its own potential ups and downs...

If you flash back a decade or two (depending upon how old you are), you were in 7th grade, writing your final exams, waiting for the summer holidays and then waiting to move into eighth grade.

Of course, when school re-opened, you were excited about your new classrooms, eyed your new class teacher with enormous suspicion, made friends with the new kid from Delhi, loved putting brown paper covers on your textbooks (oh, and which lables do I pick?) and so on and so forth. But, I digress...

There was a familiar pattern to it. Sixth grade gave way to seventh, which gave way to the eight and such. Your path was fixed, there wasn't much room or need to improvise, explore, experiment or take risk. It was a pre-determined course on which you kept chugging along, albeit with some good times (When you won the first prize in that science quiz) and some bad ones (Ugh! That 30 out of 50 in 9th grade Math!). Of course, you had slightly different issues in life then (How do I get my parents to increase my allowance? What sport do I want to play today?)... :)

Flash forward to the present - As we progress into our twenties, get a college education and / or start working, the options for paths to take in life have obscenely multiplied. Each decision point bringing it's own sets of pros and cons into the equation, each decision having that much more of an impact on how your life will shape up 10 years from now, 20 years from now, each decision making you think that much more about what you truly want out of life.

As they say, with each passing year, while life gets that much more complicated, it also brings with it a new set of experiences that are that much more fun! Several readers of this post are perhaps on the cusp of several major decisions in their lives. Remember that the set of constraints you will have to deal with will again keep increasing with time. So, enjoy the present for what it is. Enjoy the challenge that each decision brings with it at this point in time. While it may be taxing at times and downright painful at others, let's not forget the whole 'life is about the journey and not the destination' spiel. Each decision is an adventure, a pact with yourself to make a foray into the unknown, to prove or disprove your own hypotheses, to make new discoveries!

Happy decision making dear readers! :)