Decision Making

We all have expectations. Not just for others, but for ourselves. We want to live a certain type of lifestyle, have certain things, be around certain people, go certain places, etc. We envision ourselves being a certain type of person. But when these expectations are not reality, and you don’t see any suggestion that it will ever be a reality—that becomes a difficult gulp to swallow.
Logically, most of us can give ourselves the best advice because logically we know and understand that anything that we may want takes time. We may not know what we want today, we just want something. We don’t know what it is, we just want it now. Yet in that spirit of “the now” we find ourselves diving deep into a depression because we have let other negative emotions like hurt, lack, envy, loneliness, anger, stress, discouragement build up. It seems as if you are going backwards while trying to move forward. We all remember how it feels to try to walk up an escalator that is going down (same thing).

The truth is, we will continue to feel this way. We will continue to experience these same emotions and depression if we do not make a change. This takes me; however, back to my point on logic. As humans we are capable of determining and deciphering so much information. We acquire information for so many different sources. Despite how much information we have, that still doesn’t keep us from making decisions emotionally. So now the quest is to find out how do you balance your emotions with your logic? How do you make your subconscious believe what you can reason consciously?

Unfortunately, these are questions I struggle with daily, but in that struggle, there is growth, there is strength, and when the puzzle comes together the elevator won’t seem so hard to climb. One thing I am certain, there will only be another down escalator in some other facet of life that will seem at the time insurmountable, but with each struggle we will be raised to a new level.
See you at the top.