How to Make Decisions That You Will Never Regret

It’s about loving the choice, not choosing the best one.

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Life is a matter of choices. And every choice you make makes you. — John C. Maxwell

I have always romanticized the idea of choice and marvelled at what-ifs and possible outcomes. My undying love for the idea of multiverses stems from my curiosity about how different choices could have a different impact on our lives.

Good choice as such doesn’t really exist if you think about it. We just think that we can make the good one. We romanticise it as we can never have any proof about one option being the good one, and the other a bad one. Life doesn’t have a built-in A/B testing function.

I have always wanted to believe in some higher power, the interconnectedness of the universe, of souls. I wanted to believe that all that is happening around us is not something random, there is a reason, there is a masterplan behind it. I didn’t want to figure out who or what is behind it all if it is God or some kind of a god, fate, destiny, universe. Our lives are so very complex that it cannot be a happenstance only that we are here and this is happening to us here and now.

There has to be something out there knowing it better than we do.

The higher power is within our minds

I do believe in God. And I believe that there is a bigger structure that we fit in. Ad it’s amazing and it’s immense and it’s incomprehensible. And humbling — to think about how small we are.

But thinking about our everyday lives I don’t think it works the way religions and institutions tell us. Life in itself is a miracle and the chance encounters that happen, the people we meet, the children we get — they shape our lives immensely. Faith is helping us to get through life easier, it anchors us, it guides us — just like norms and laws do, only faith guides on an emotional level.

But what we call signs and guidance from a higher power, are usually signs that our minds are creating.

If you are waiting for a sign, it is a sign already. The impatience, the frustration that seems inexplicable or…