Thought and Poem

Thought – July 29, 2014

I hate having to make decisions. For some of our decisions, you know the right way you should go, and other decisions, you refuse to decide the outcome so you can say “oh, I didn’t know.” I have done this so many times in my life. I think what I have learned is that, it is always best to train your conscious to pick the right one from the beginning so that you don’t have to suffer any of the “not so good consequences.”

You think that you will start tomorrow to change the way you make your decisions, and that you will and can adapt to a new way about how you will “think” before you make them. You are determined to start doing things the right way. You wake up in the morning and you tell yourself that today is the day you are going to set this plan in action…but…just shortly after you get out of bed, you come upon a decision you have to make about something that is so tempting and you start to panic. But it shouldn’t be this hard you tell yourself as after all, you figure you have been making wrong decisions and mistakes for this long…another day won’t matter. And then, you bow to the wrong decision again.

We always have to make decisions about something. This is bad enough, but how about those decisions you try to give to someone else to make and they hand them back to you. Such as, you ask your husband, family, friend what they want to have for supper at your house tonight and you give them three choices. The typical response is usually, “I’m not fussy,” or “Anything is fine,” or “I don’t know, you decide!” Do you know why people do this to us? They don’t want to make a wrong decision. So if YOU chose the wrong one, they are off the hook! Decisions, right or wrong, what would our lives be without them?

What about you? When you are faced with tough decisions, ones that you have only a split second to decide on, how do you convince yourself to do what is right? Share your thoughts with us….Jeanne Claire Probst

Poem: Should I or Should I Not?

Ever been in one of those situations
Where you have to make a decision,
And you don’t always want to pick the one that you should,
But you know you should have, as the resulting aftermath was not going to be good?

For example, you go to the store to get just a “few” things,
And you go down the bakery aisle and your eyes zoom in on the sweet “if you eat these, you will put on weight” kind of things, while the alarm goes off in your head and begin sounding the “don’t do it warnings.”
You know you shouldn’t indulge but this has never stopped you before,
So you put a package in the cart and wonder…here is the decision you have to make…should I take “one more?”

Or how about when you are driving down the road and come to a “yellow” light,
You wonder if you “just give it a little more gas you can get though before it changes,” and you think you can make it but it is going to be tight,
But the light turns red before you get half way through the intersection, and you now see the “red and blue” lights.
And you sweat out the embarrassment; you turn your head the other away, as the officer stands where everyone can see you, and a ticket he does write.

Oh, oh, this is a good one, that happens when you go out to eat,
At an “all you can eat buffet” where they display, all kinds of veggies, salads, fish, and meats,
And after you have your first “overfilled” plate,
You again begin to contemplate.

Well, this was good, but I wonder if I could try the other stuff,
Even though your stomach is bulging and telling you “don’t do it” you have had enough!”
And after the second helping, you go up and down and around all the desserts to pick the right one you want to take and put on your plate,
And while you are eating what you took, your belly aches from eating too much and then you think of all the calories you just ate and you know…another bad mistake you did make.

I don’t like having to make decisions, but I have to make them every day,
Some I decisions I can get away with, but others are NOT okay.
They say eventually one might learn from their mistakes,
I am just wondering….for me….how long will this take?

Jeanne Claire Probst