Essay
Are the Thoughts You’re Thinking and Acting on Really Yours?
Just saying they are doesn’t count
We make thousands of decisions every day.
How many of them are right?
Luckily for us, most of them.
From birth, we’ve been processing information and accepting guidance from others all in an effort to make the right choices. And we do alright.
To know when to sip hot coffee. When not to step into a street filled with traffic. Who to say yes to. Who to run away from.
Most decisions are benign. No one cares what we ate for lunch or what color briefs we’re wearing this morning. They’re not high priority so no one is taking note and keeping score.
But on the important decisions, those that impact our lives beyond today, are they ours or ones borrowed from others?
From an early age, we learn to stop trying to process every piece of information on our own and rely more on shortcuts. Faster ways to get answers and move forward in life without doing it all ourselves.
Dad knows money, ask him. Allyson is a good doctor, let’s get her opinion.
Grandpa read great stories and always told me — vote Republican boy, you’ll do alright.
