Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Would the “Change” fear stop me from postponing?

I have a habit of postponing my decisions be it work, marriage, men or even wisdom tooth extractions and I know for sure that I am being silly about it.
A few days back, I went to see the musical “Menopause” done by four brilliant women enacting the “Change” that is yet to come but in all fairness is just above a decade away. It hit me hard that am not going to remain young forever. Honestly since then I have been actually watching out for every “Personal Tropical Summer” or “Slushy Flush”… Putting away decisions that don’t matter today has been the easiest way to save myself the strain of thinking or moving too quickly. I stumbled upon a wise crack that picked the exact essence of my thought process:

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Dr. Vogel, the dentist, finished his examination on a pretty young patient. "Miss Baseman," he said, "I'm afraid I'm going to have to pull out your wisdom teeth!" "Oh, my!" exclaimed the girl. "I'd rather have a baby!" "Well," said Dr. Vogel, "could you make up your mind so that I can adjust the chair?" Make up your mind. Don't go on postponing infinitely.
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As tomorrow I would have to decide just about the same thing so why not today? Guess I am assuming that tomorrow I will be wiser than today? Have I taken for granted that tomorrow I would be livelier than today? Have I befooled myself that tomorrow I would be younger or fresher than today?

Now that I know tomorrow the change would be inevitable, my courage will be less; even though I will be more experienced, my cunningness will be more; I will start wavering and be more afraid. So now I have decided that even though I could still postpone marriage and many other work related decisions, there is one decision that I have made for now which I am not postponing…..I am getting a male dentist!