Choose

Interesting... having looked up "decide" yesterday, I thought I would look up "choose" today... And it's roots go back to German and Gothic languages, and eventually, remotely to Latin... But the Germanic root basically means "to taste".

Which has a different flavour than "decide" and it's meaning of "to fall". In tasting, we can taste here and we can taste there. But when we taste something, it's like it becomes part of us. And similarly to the meaning of decide, we can't undo a tasting... much as we might like to! Once you've tasted a hot pepper... well... you're in it for the full tasting!! You can't undo a taste... A taste means you are committed to experiencing the full taste of something... You can savour it... or you can plough through it! But you can't avoid it.

So, in choosing something, we are committed to it as well... As we choose something, as we taste it, we are committed to the full experience of it. We can't undo the taste... You have to let the taste or the choice run it's full course before you can move on to something else...