What would your decision be?

[Emil]

Each direction in life that a person ends up walking on, is based on a repetitive stream of decision making. We all have to make decisions, each and every day. These choices could be insignificant to our path in life (such as a settlement to wear the blue shirt instead of the orange), and yet, without any realization at all, these choices could make all of the difference in what the outcome of your day shall be. Perhaps the result of your simple and supposedly trival resolve to wear the blue shirt will score you a job that will upgrade your life considerly which might not have occured had you worn the orange shirt instead. Perhaps an individual would be so impressed by your composure and choice in outfits that he/she will offer you a job on the spot. Maybe, had you chosen to go the the restaurant on the left hand side of the street rather than the right hand side, you would have been robbed/murdered.

Whether the human is conscious of it or not, we each make decisions that shape and define this thing we happen to call life.

Now that we fully understand that these subconscious decisions of ours may indeed transform our lives into methods before deemed unimaginable, what are we to do when faced with a decision that you know will alter your path in life so severely that it might indeed throw you offgaurd?

It's quite uncomparable when dealing with subconscious life altering decisions and completely conscious ones, because when you are fully aware that your decision will in fact, transform everything you knew to be your "life" into some other mold, you tend to become paranoid and obsessive with the results of your decision.

Now, once again, it is unconcievable to compare the task of having to decide between two life altering decisions, and several. When one comes under the realization that they have multitudnal options where they must choose only one, and each single one signifies modification of your current lifestyle, this becomes a burden almost unbearable.

This usually creates an urge to complete a pro's and con's list. What are you to do, when your pros and cons seem somewhat equal in each option, because each alternative is something so drastic that you are unsure of the outcome?

When you could have a life of solitiude, or one in the city? Where you might live in an ultimately nonstop high temperatured environment or one that actually has seasons? When you must choose between living with your family that you don't get along with under any circumstance but in a new city where you have the option of meeting new aquaintances, or staying in a city where you have extreemly close and important individuals in your life but that you hate with a passion that offers no future? And what happens when the option to leave to a new city, is unresolved because the options for which city is to be your desination is multitudnous, and depends on the job offerings for your family? When the decision also creates a complication concerning which University you will have to transfer to?

What would you do, if you had to make this decision in five weeks?

[Anonymouse]

Well, I can't say it ain't an interesting topic, but I am confused, are you asking what choice would one make given knowledge of where our choices lead?

[Emil]

Eh, basically what would your choice be? Move with your family or stay and live with your friends.

[Anonymouse]

Well, it would be pretty difficult to decide, but given the circumstances I don't know. If my family problems were too extreme, extreme enough to never change, since people don't change, then I'd go with the alternative, but at present I find myself having difficulty accepting that since my family, even though a rough ride it's been, is tame now.

You are right in effect about how the littlest of things are based on the axiom of human action, as Mises described so beautiful in Human Action from which he derived all basic economic laws, and the memory of our past, and the decisions of today, all carry us toward an end.