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According to the
Constitution of India, we are free. And even with the vote bank politics
often playing on cast-cards, we remain primarily a secular and liberal
nation.
But what
is freedom?
Freedom means having the liberty of making your own choices. Yes,
this includes the wrong ones too. It�s about the liberty of making free
choice about which song you sing, which dress you wear, which God you
follow (or the liberty of not following any if you are an
agnostic), which language you speak etc. etc. provided that these
choices of you does not harm that of others.
What
about making choices?
Do we always have an option? "When the only choice is perhaps the
wrong one, it�s more like FATE."
Or when the closure of our thought comes, we bound to choose
an option which is more like the result of a random experiment than a
logical outcome.
I know this article is also getting messy like always. Diverting
from where it started and flowing without any proper direction. In fact,
this is another messy post flowing with the flow of my already messed up
mind.
The question however, is simple. Can you make any logical
decision? While taking a decision you start thinking with respect to a set
of theory-judgment-prescriptions and a point of view. Let�s
call these theory-judgment-prescriptions as the �options� you
have. Of course, you can have many more options to choose from (rather
other decisions to take) which are outside this set. But these are not our
concern because the universe is infinite and in any point of time you can
have no less number of possible choices than infinite itself. So, let�s
say that we can not bring up any new ideas while the decision making
process is on. This means taking a decision means choosing one from the
options.
The entry point of decision making process is when you start
thinking with a set of options and a point of view. Then the
implications of each option starts becoming clear to you and you go into a
comparative analysis of the implications involved which is called
opening. But the implications of even a small decision can
be infinite. So, we can not afford a real thorough thinking with
all of the details involved because we can not keep thinking
forever. So, after a certain period we say �Ok, that�s it. After thinking
this much it seems this choice is the better one to take.� And we come to
a decision and act. This is called closure.
Even if we engage ourselves a real looooooong time in thinking we
may not end up at a right decision. Which seems to be the right decision
at this moment may be proved to be the worst possible mistake because of
the changing time. With the flow of time people change, situation changes,
affinity changes, relation changes and so change you. Like the booming IT
sector of 2006 crashes with some sort of things called US Recession, Rupee
Appreciation, Indian Economic Slowdown and
Blah-Blah�
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