Its lunch time, your stomach starts to grumble, you are reminded of your childhood days when you used to have terrific food and you think why did one grow up? But never mind, we have great, healthy food in our cafeteria (Of course, this is not happening in our cafeteria, but just imagine for once :) ).
Right! You enter the cafeteria: No! its jam packed, all the counters are accompanied by a long queue to salvation. Lets look at the situation objectively, North Indian stall has Naan and Palak Paneer, South Indian stall has chapathi and chicken curry and the other veg stuff, the biriyani stall has the usual fare ( but you had biriyani the day before so you almost rule that out); then you start counting the number of people in each stall but the counters are quite far apart, so you need to make some 'trips' to take the count, but it turns out that its north of 50 in both the counters. Hmm, you decide you do not want to wait (cant wait to get back to productivity ;) ) and go outside to the nearby restaurant taking your bike.
But this is Kerala and as fate would have it, it is a hartal day in God's own country because some student leader was kicked out of the class, and the restaurants are all closed. Disappointed, you come back to office hoping the rush would have subsided by now and find all the vendors packing up and leaving for the day, apparently the lunch time was over.
All through our lives we are made to choose from a multitude of options and we spend a lot of time deciding which one. We keep imagining how those decisions would turn out, which option is more convenient and apply a lot of parameters like them to make the call. Some find it extremely difficult to choose while some are even fearful of it (Decidophobia).
One of the parameters that should be always there in your decision making process is the opportunity cost to make the decision - what all someone could have done during the time the he/she makes the decision. Adding this in would bring in some sort of urgency into the process and not waste time.
Something which really spreads a lot of negative energy within you is when you think about the decisions you have taken in the past and apply a lot of "What Ifs?" to it. What if you had taken the second option? What if you had taken up sports professionally instead of Physics? etc. Though a certain amount of contemplation is good at times, as that would help you during decision making in the future, but most of the time they help in only moving you into depression.
Trust your instincts for a change and keep in mind that: you dont make right or wrong decisions, you take a decision and make it right!
PS: This is more of a note to myself than anything else :D
Right! You enter the cafeteria: No! its jam packed, all the counters are accompanied by a long queue to salvation. Lets look at the situation objectively, North Indian stall has Naan and Palak Paneer, South Indian stall has chapathi and chicken curry and the other veg stuff, the biriyani stall has the usual fare ( but you had biriyani the day before so you almost rule that out); then you start counting the number of people in each stall but the counters are quite far apart, so you need to make some 'trips' to take the count, but it turns out that its north of 50 in both the counters. Hmm, you decide you do not want to wait (cant wait to get back to productivity ;) ) and go outside to the nearby restaurant taking your bike.
But this is Kerala and as fate would have it, it is a hartal day in God's own country because some student leader was kicked out of the class, and the restaurants are all closed. Disappointed, you come back to office hoping the rush would have subsided by now and find all the vendors packing up and leaving for the day, apparently the lunch time was over.
All through our lives we are made to choose from a multitude of options and we spend a lot of time deciding which one. We keep imagining how those decisions would turn out, which option is more convenient and apply a lot of parameters like them to make the call. Some find it extremely difficult to choose while some are even fearful of it (Decidophobia).
One of the parameters that should be always there in your decision making process is the opportunity cost to make the decision - what all someone could have done during the time the he/she makes the decision. Adding this in would bring in some sort of urgency into the process and not waste time.
Something which really spreads a lot of negative energy within you is when you think about the decisions you have taken in the past and apply a lot of "What Ifs?" to it. What if you had taken the second option? What if you had taken up sports professionally instead of Physics? etc. Though a certain amount of contemplation is good at times, as that would help you during decision making in the future, but most of the time they help in only moving you into depression.
Trust your instincts for a change and keep in mind that: you dont make right or wrong decisions, you take a decision and make it right!
PS: This is more of a note to myself than anything else :D
Good one da.. Its true the fact that we waste lotta time in deciding n then thinking "what if"..
ReplyDeleteAnd I liked the last line.. "you dont make right or wrong decisions, you take a decision and make it right!"
thank you da, that line was stuck in my mind after ashish told it to me. :)
DeleteIt reminded me of the Oracle Cafeteria... when u left on the bike i thought u would go to the restaurant outside PTP, which joshi used to go to... :) but u reached kerala instead.. :)
ReplyDeleteOracle cafeteria is now better as Non Veg is also available :)
Deleteit was an enjoyable read :) ... loved u coining new words like "decidophobia"... made me realise how much time i waste everyday on deciding what to decide to increase the productivity of the day :)
ReplyDeletethank you :) but i did not coin the word :
Deletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decidophobia
mathu.. i can connect to this.. especially the last part of what-ifs.
ReplyDeleteyou know, while it was chettan in hospital, that i had to come to mumbai And in mumbai,i went down that road of what-ifs and depression you were talking about. i did.
hmm.. nice read man.. keep writing.
thank you da, i guess everyone would have faced similar situations. Its about putting a full stop on the "what ifs" after a point.
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ReplyDeleteU cud have put up the video ... remember the one u had posted on FB !! and nice read. Sad u dint give me any credits :P :P
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I wanted to try out my writing skills. After school, I just havent been writing. I was working on this before we talked about this on FB, just that I was too lazy to finish it. :)
DeleteReally good one. You just wrote on something which everyone goes through in life day in and out. One particular thing which I have experienced is to decide on a particular text on a subject. You spend a lot of time choosing the best possible one and end up just reading its preface and contents ;-)
ReplyDelete:D thanks. Spoke like a true research fellow! :)
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ReplyDeleteGood one Anoop!! I think everyone will come across this 'What to choose' situation one or the other way, especially on a day to day basis, deciding on what to eat.. Presented the subject well.
ReplyDeleteyou dont make right or wrong decisions, you take a decision and make it right! - I don't think u can never make it right with our cafte food ;)