It's 12.40 am, and I'm feeling sleepy.....

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This is an out of the blue post for me.....but I felt like posting something today so here it is. I've been watching TEDtalks and philosophical videos and they were quite interesting and good. Who doesn't love to think? People have so many great insights about how the world works..... Just yesterday I came across one: about choosing between two hard choices. Why is choosing hard? Say between two jobs with equal prospects in the world; equally valued but qualitatively different views of the society regarding them. So which one would you choose? Would you become a cricket player, or a mechanical engineer.....you can be either one because you have that capability. So this is a hard choice, and probably because there isn't a best one. It's not our fault that we find it difficult to choose, we are not stupid you know. What we do is try and compare between the two.....mark off the advantages and drawbacks of each career, and simply tally in the end. Or we don't go into all that at all, just choose the safest option. But that leads us to wrong decisions. Even if you increase the pay of one by much more, still doesn't make one job better than the other. So we are presented with a conundrum. It's because we are trying to measure them like we compare numbers. The value of a job is mistaken to be like a numeral, which it's not. One job cannot be better than another with almost the same value. So we have to create reasons for ourselves to make us worthy of a job. Simply taking any reason society throws at us is not going to establish what we are worth. If society says that cricket has physical risks, and you abide by this information to direct your life course, you are letting society dictate the story of your life. Instead create your own reasons, identify with yourself. Ask------ what are you made to do in life? I can be a good cricketer than an engineer because..... So in a way, hard choices make us who we are in our penultimate form. It brings about self revelation. The hard choice I had to make a moment ago was whether to post this on mylot or just to go to sleep. I chose the former because the back of my mind has been nagging me to share this with my friends here since yesterday. So I'm satisfied now that I've made the right choice! Okkk, goodnight everyone! Bed is calling! God, it's now 1 am.....*yawn*