Can't Decide

 Have you ever experienced a "can't make up your mind" moment?  It's when deciding on a choice between 2 options becomes an impasse or tie vote.  Neither option has an apparent advantage or both have flaws or advantages unrecognized.

Such moments were once so common the phrases "I can't decide" and "I can't make up my mind" were one and the same.  When was the last time you faced a decision where the options presented lacked enough differentiation or were missing enough information to choose one over the other?

More importantly... when was the last time you ordered a flavored soda, purchased a colored shirt,  or - rebellious as it may be perceived - decided on a tattoo design?

Soda flavors, rainbow hues, and artistic or symbolic  imagery involve personal decisions as long as free will continues to exist.  Given our mind's dual nature - that we have the capacity to consider or weigh 2 options over instinctively or reflexively taking 1 - those moments should happen every single day.  And unless someone's making your decisions for you (and you haven't been told) there should be more than 1 beverage in your fridge, more than 1 color of shirt in your closet, and dual meaning in every tattoo on your skin.

Are you ok so far?  Because a problem exists with our minds and a decision should demand to be made.  Once the problem is framed for perception or brought back to awareness you can decide to:

1. Leave it as-is with no questions asked.
2. Do something about it while questioning everything.

It's a simple problem to describe:  the unconscious mind - virtually every individual's - does not appear to have perspective at it's disposal or use.

But does that matter or mean anything?  Every individual on the planet is going about their lives and living aren't they?  They're aren't any news reports on those who've had their perspective taken or lost.  No world leaders are voicing or behaving as though they don't know what to say or do next.   No politicians or businessmen are making illogical decisions, statements, or copying those of others.  Everyone is doing fine minus some arbitrary - and possibly imaginary - amount of perspective.  Who can say whether fine or ok make a difference?

I'm saying it now.

You can be "fine" but not "ok".  There can be no comparison between the two.  Which brings us back to the problem along with the latest sleight or insult parading as news online - the "quiet quitter".

Should you have a co-worker "let go" but their work added to your own... don't object or invoke fairness.  That's no longer acceptable or allowed.  We all get to work from home now.  Doesn't that change everything?  A dozen more hours of work every week isn't so terrible is it?  Why worry about balance or separation between work and home?  No one's going to live forever, right?

For those who quietly accepted each sentence in the prior paragraph - perspective needs to be  restored.  That's not a want for some.  It's a need for all.

Regardless of what is asked or suggested (whether or not it's within parameters which don't jeopardize the individual) never agree to carry it out or execute it without access to perspective.  No matter how big or small, inconvenient or trivial, difficult or simple, there's no way it can be weighed or considered in fairness or otherwise.