Jamie Inniss
To never have to choose again is a magnificent gift. The decisions in life take up a ridiculous amount of our time. Think about the time you spend thinking, pondering, and debating in your everyday life. Just imagine sleeping in ten minutes later because you don’t need to choose dessert or no dessert at dinner, or watching an extra hour of television because you know, without the need to decide, that you aren’t going for a run the next day. Thinking takes time, but even so, this is hard to convince people to stop doing. Instead, I find it helpful to address specifically the issue of decisions, because of all the thinking we do, nothing takes up more of our time than decisions.
People are constantly telling us what to do, and how to do it. Interestingly, we tell them as well. This circle of influence is constant. It is important to note in this writing then, that I am not telling you what to do, simply recommending. Recommending we all stop wasting our “precious” time with choices. You will find this eliminating worry, as there is nothing to worry about if your decisions have already been made. You can try and prove me wrong. Tell me how worrying about the planet one day flooding is helping your everyday life. Less extreme: tell me how constantly thinking about your weight is keeping your mind relaxed. Not thinking is the smartest and most convenient thing you can do.
With that now resolved, I would like to take our attention back to decisions. Not only does this take up the ever increasing value of time, but they are often hard to make. This is either because they are large and influential, or they are so insignificant that the decision is irrelevant.
I know this is hard to imagine; a world without the need to decide. In this day in age, we are encouraged to have a say. We are told to make our own choices, and to never let anyone tell us what to do. This only stresses the mind into the belief that you must have an opinion. As children, most are under the control of this belief. People around us always have an opinion, and judge us when we do not. We fight ourselves to find some kind of opinion. Eventually we relax into this lifestyle, as unhealthy as it is.
Having the ability to choose does not make us free, it chains us to a wall and holds us back. we can be liberated from the choice of life. Indeed, we do not choose to live, we simply and without question, do.