Next year is still somewhere in the future and doesn't really exist yet and with only a couple of days left before the next party, it hardly seems worth starting anything. So I feel like I am in limbo which according to the Oxford English Dictionary is "an intermediate state of condition awaiting decision". The term decision reminds me about the New Year resolution. The New Year is a good time to make resolutions. Every year most of us take some decisions and make promise to our own self that we will work on these. Many of those were completed and some remains only in books. Someone has very correctly said “It’s paradoxical that the person on whom you have the most control is yourself, yet the hardest person to change is yourself ".
Life is never as simple as it seems. Our priorities, our taste and our relations changes with time and so as our resolutions. A New-year resolution if defined in basic manners is “To take a new decision, setting one goal and start working to achieve that”. But is the decision making is such a simple process? Many of time in our life we got stuck somewhere and it’s really hard to take some concrete decision on that. One of the most common theories in the field of decision making is the expected utility theory (EU). According to this theory, people usually make their decisions by weighing the severity and likelihood of the possible outcomes of different alternatives. The integration of this information is made through some type of expectation, based calculus (cognitive activity) which enables us to make a decision..We generally stuck on decsions when we are actually biased towards the failure side. Most of us don’t actually want to feel the hard face of life and the ground reality. Actually in such cases we want to live in the moment only and don’t want to face the future with giving the argument that destiny is already decided. I do agree that destiny is already decided and no one can change that. Then what we can do – we can make our life easy by taking right decisions at right time. Life is full of choices but the important thing is to make the right choice.
Last week a very good friend was arguing with me on why to plan for future. According to her “we spend our entire life on thinking that this is wrong, this is right, we have to do this and that .but when Destiny has to do something, it happens and all our dreams and plans just scattered like playing cards” Bitter truth of life. But thus this means that we stop thinking about future. No, Life is all about new start. We just can’t stop thinking of future because we have bad experience in past. Whatever happened in past is just can’t be reverted back. But we can change our future by making change in our present.
In this New Year let’s make a new start by taking some new resolution and checking the ground reality. Let’s not think only alone about ourselves but for the people in our surrounding as well. Lets give them the reason to smile and proud on us. Lets see all the options and directions available in life and find out the best among those, not only for our own self but for all for whom we actually matters. Let’s just not care only about someone feelings but the aftermaths of the decision as well. Hard decisions always give the pain in the beginning. But in the end always leads for better future. Let’s start a new journey with new hopes. Wish you a very happy and prosperous new year!!!
