okay, so this is only my second commonplace post, and it's, like, thirty minutes before it's due, but i'm gonna put more on later...
in singer's solution, he shows how dora makes the "right choice" by taking the boy back after she finds out he's going to be killed, but bob makes the "wrong choice" by killing the kid instead of destroying his car...
so, i've been wondering from the very first time i read that essay, what is behind our choices? and why do we choose what we choose? do we do it because it's the "right" thing to do? do we do it because it's the easy way out? do we do it because that's what everyone else wants us to do?
i've been thinking aboug all my decisions a lot lately...and i found out a lot of my choices are decisions i've made because other people wanted me to...or because it seemed like the easy way out. they are very few big decisions i've made in my life because i want to.
i've decided to really think about the reason behind all my upcoming decisions, because it can make a huge difference going the way you want, the way everyone else wants, and the easy way out...
2 comments:
i kno how you feel...i just had to make an extremely big decision and trust me it wasn't easy. I thoroughly thought out every possiblity and consequence but sometimes you just need to know what you want. Basically, you need to be ok with your decisions after you've made them, so make them for you not for someone else.
♥alysha
I think decisions are made for all sorts of reasons.
sometimes people make decisions to appease or to defy someone...sometimes people make decisions because they feel it's the right thing to do, or like the thrill of knowing it's the wrong thing to do...sometimes people make decisions without thinking of possible outcomes and have simply no reason for making, except that they had to make a decision. It's super cool that you've been thinking about why we make choices...I think though, that if we think to hard about making a decision, we end up arguing w/ ourselves to a point where we decide to simply move on, and forget about the decision...but i think it's better to make a bad decision and learn from it, than to walk away from it completely.
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