Decide

We all know the word "decide". To choose something... to make a decision... to go this way or that way. The word decide comes from the Latin decidere which literally means "to fall". Which makes total sense to me!

Making a decision is like falling... it is leaping off of the cliff into the unknown. It is falling off into space and sometimes not knowing what's going to happen but at least a decision has been made. And, as with falling, there is often no going back with a decision! Once you've decided to jump out of the plane with your parachute... you can't undo that decision! You're committed to following it through...

Once a decision is made... it is made... To look back and regret what might have been is futile. But sometimes we try to go back on our decisions. We try to undo the past. And it can't be undone. Falling is pretty much a one-way street. We can't "unfall". We can't fall upwards and do it over again.

Mind you... we don't need to make decisions either. We can put it off and dither and justify and explain and come up with all sorts of excuses for why we don't want to fall... jump into whatever it is that is in front of us. Procrastination comes in all sorts of forms... I procrastinate by doing the laundry and cleaning the house and tidying up my desk and writing letters to people... I'm dithering on the edge of the cliff and not leaping out into the unknown... not soaring on the winds of transformation...