This week’s Dime Store Philosophy: Either Nothing Happens or Something Happens. Go Figure.
Life is pretty simple. Humans just have an extraordinary talent for turning a basic decision into a federal investigation.
You make a choice. Maybe it works out. Maybe it doesn't. Sometimes you win. Sometimes you learn an expensive lesson with absolutely no refund policy.
Meanwhile, we'll spend three days overthinking a decision that takes five minutes to make. We consult the committee in our heads, poll people who aren't paying our bills, and imagine seventeen different disasters before breakfast.
Apparently, anxiety is what happens when imagination gets an unlimited data plan.
Here's the thing: you'll often regret the things you never tried more than the things you tried that didn't work out.
Ask him out. Ask her out. The worst they can say is no. You might feel awkward for an afternoon. Congratulations, you'll survive a minor inconvenience without requiring a Netflix documentary.
Take the job offer if it's genuinely a better opportunity. Make the move. Start the business. Have the conversation. Take the damn chance.
Do your homework, obviously. We're making decisions, not auditioning for a Darwin Award.
But at some point, you have to stop rehearsing your life and actually participate in it.
Not every decision will be right. Some will be spectacularly wrong. That's part of the admission price for being a human being without a preview of coming attractions.
You can spend so much time protecting yourself from disappointment that you accidentally protect yourself from opportunity, too.
So make the decision. Take the shot. Let life answer.
Because at the end of the day, something happens or nothing happens.
And wouldn't it be a shame to spend your whole life wondering what might have happened because you were too busy thinking about it?
Go figure.
Yours Truly,
Lateef N. Watkins.
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