We decide quite early in life whether or not we want to follow our parents' advice or not. In so doing, the decision sometimes works to our advantage and sometimes to our disadvantage.
Later when we are in school, we make the decision of whether or not we want to listen to our teachers and whether or not we want to do the homework that we have been assigned to do.
For those of you who grew up with only one parent, those decisions were influenced differently than those who grew up with two parents.
After high school, we made decisions about:
- college
- marriage
- children
- divorce
- military
- employment
- relocation
Of course, there were hundreds if not thousands of decisions that must be made over the course of one's lifetime, involving a variety of areas, not just the ones listed above.
Every four years, we get to make a decision as to which person we believe will be the best one to lead our nation... sometimes, that decision has already been made for us, because we have affiliated ourselves with a political party, and agreed to vote for the party not the person.
However, there are those of us who have made the decision to vote for the best person, regardless of their party affiliation.
For me, I was solidly a Democrat and voted for the party not the person. When I entered the mid point of my life, somewhere around the age of 40, most (but not all) of my values turned conservative. Not sure why that happened but it did.
With that said, I am not a Republican, nor am I a Democrat, nor am I a Socialist. I suppose an Independent would be the best description, but I don't feel that I am that either.
I am liberal as well as conservative. I don't like government, nor do I like the government telling me what I should or should not do. I want to make up my own mind about owning or not owning a gun, or thinking that the government has the right to tell me what I can or cannot do with my body.
Today, I am faced with a decision that is not just uncomfortable but one that I cannot avoid. I don't want to vote for Biden for President, nor do I want to vote for Trump. Of all the other GOP candidates, I don't want to vote for any of them. I detest having to make a decision based upon the lesser of two evils.
Perhaps this is one of those times, where one decides to vote for the party and not for the person?
Thankfully, I have a year before I have to make that decision and, in the meantime, there will be hundreds of other decisions that I will be making. Some difficult, some relatively easy.
Our decisions mold who we are and/or what we have become. Our decisions influence our future because our past influences the decisions we make. To avoid making a decision, is like hiding from the truth and when one hides from the truth, the truth always comes back and bites one in the ass.
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