A year after i started to blog i had posted 133 posts in the year. Assuming that we include this post, i would be having 11 posts for this year. Another interesting fact that i just now noticed through this post from India Uncut whose author, by the way was my inspiration for getting into the coveted world of blogging is that he too has blogged sparingly. Am i following my inspiration or am i just lazy?
It is too easy for us to lose interest in the things we do to relax or which just interests us. Why? A study has revealed some remarkable results. It concludes that we have a decision overload and stress factor in life is increasing so much that we aren't able to keep our eyes set at one thing. I can very well relate to this, because in the past 2 year i have had to take so many decisions not just for myself but also for the people around me. Sometimes taking a decision becomes so much of a multidimensional problem that it is best not to take the decsion ( go the congress way of policy paralysis).
Again as an engineer i tend to ask why? Why do i have this "Decision Overload". There are two answers which come to my mind very quickly
- Expections set by others that we want to meet : I always want everyone appauld my decision and say that was the best thing to do. Which means i have to think a million times about all the stakeholders and what they feel about it.
- Information overload: There is so much information available today that some factors which we just ignored in the past we now have to consider. Simple example.....Should i look at another website for a better offer on this particular ticket?
Sometimes the more we know the more it is difficult to take a decision. Sometimes i wonder why my father seems always so relaxed is that somehow he trusts that all his decisions are governed by some higher power which he trusts is anyway beyond his control. Never for once does he regret his decision but always tries to understand what he learnt from that decision...
While one should own up for the decision....one should never regret what has been done....cause we have to remember what we maybe cribbing about today was the same stuff that we were yearning for ....
Ok...Time to stop giving Gyaan....and get to party shoes.
