Choices, Chances and Decisions, Repercussions

Given any situation, we are required to take a decision. Think of any regular day and any regular chore or activity. When we get up in the morning. ‘Do you want to wake up or not?’ ‘ Do you want to sleep more?’ ‘Do you want to suddenly jump up?’ ‘ Do you want to fall on the floor?’ Or when you meet someone, again you have decisions to make. Decisions starting from how do you wish to greet the person. With a ‘hi’. With a ‘hello’. With a slap! With a high five. The choices are multifold.

Some of these choices may not be viable according to you. Some of these choices might be outrageous. What is important to understand is that these choices exist. And there are infinite such choices. We may not be able to visualize them or perceive them, but they are there. So as a result our ‘decision’ is limited by the number of choices that we can visualize given any situation. And that’s the important point!

Your decisions in life are governed by the number or quantum of choices that you can visualize at that instant.

So when you meet new people next time, you might behave in a particular fashion because you have decided out of the options to act in that way as you deem apt. But the options are there. As insane as they may sound, you have the option to jump around when you see them, hit them, hurt them, be nice to them, not be nice to them, loot them and so on…

Given any situation, understand that you have the liberty to think in any direction you wish to. And realization is the point of beginning. So think wild, whacky or just be creative with your thoughts. You may not necessarily exercise them in your manifestation of existence.

The repercussions of these decisions obviously vary. We’ll try and understand how these choices and repercussions exist in the next post. We will also discuss why the ‘choice and chance’ phenomenon is so important. And how it is linked with theories of physics.