What Does it Mean to Make the Right Decision?

The way the world is advancing, you can learn anything from the comfort of your home; you can meet people from every corner of the world just by swiping right on your mobile; you have endless opportunities to make money literally out of thin air; you can be anything, go anywhere, do almost everything; the choices are virtually limitless. We have all the freedom to live our lives in the way we please, yet we struggle to choose what we want. Freedom is supposed to make our lives easy, but are we really living easy lives?

Life seems easier when we have someone to make decisions for us. Because we don't have the responsibility of making a choice, and we have someone to blame if things don't go right. Freedom is a difficult thing to handle. It comes with responsibility and accountability and more scope for regret. Every day we are encountered with so many options and choices to choose from that we constantly have to take decisions. The ideal way is to explore all the options and decide what works best for us. But, when we are presented with multiple options, it's impossible to explore them all. When we don't explore all the options, we end up not being satisfied with what we have chosen, regretting the options we let go. 

For instance, a simple act of purchasing a pair of jeans has become tiresome. You have to choose the right color, the fit, the pattern, the material, the brand, and the price out of the thousands of options available, then finally wait until you get the best discount on the product. And it doesn't matter how many pairs of jeans you have; you are never satisfied because of the number of options that are out there. 

If a simple act of purchasing a pair of jeans is so difficult, it's unimaginable the efforts and energy it takes to make the 2 quintessential decisions of our lives: choosing a life partner and choosing a career. And the problem is we don't have the luxury of exploring too many options here given our short lives. The only possible way it seems is to think as much as we can before making a decision, and once the decision is made, stick to it and work towards making our decision right, instead of worrying whether we made the right decision. Because there is no possible way to find out if the other options we left are any better than what we choose, and hence regret is pointless. 

Maybe it's not about making the right decisions but making the decisions right. And regret if you have not put enough effort into your decisions rather than worrying about the choices that you haven't taken.