Decisions, time and right or wrong

Decisions are something we do all the time in life, from what to eat, what to become all the way up to who to marry, where to live etc. We take choices or make decisions all the time in life, sometimes for others but mostly for ourselves. There may be times when others make choices for us as well, so it is a continuous process: decision making or choices.

Now when it comes to figuring what a decision meant and how was it, the answer is mostly a right or wrong word. Maybe followed by, "I wish I could change it", or "such a right thing I did or choose".

However if we contemplate hard and really observe, there is only one factor that decides the answer to this question about how a choice was. Time.

Based on when this question is asked the answer is right or wrong. For example one may feel I did the right thing by not opting for such and such profession, at other times when we are in a different situation the same thing pinches us and we feel such a bad choice I should have gone for that profession.

My point is, the mental positions we have about past are always changing depending on our context or in other words depending on time. Even when the decisions were made by someone else for us, or maybe even when we didn't have control over what happened in life.

So why is it that we are so attached at times to choices we made, specially bad ones. And if time is really the factor that decided whether a choice was right or wrong, then isn't it any decision is never final and we have the capacity or at least a possibility to change or affect it all the time. Even if we can't go back in time, we can change how a choice made yesterday turns out tomorrow.

Only if we realize that nothing is final in life and every moment there is change. Such is the beauty, even when we feel past can't be changed and it has caused pain to us, we always have the present in our hands to make the past choices, decisions or even events meaningful, if not entirely pleasant.

So go ahead make a choice today, fear not as there is always tomorrow to change it.