I couldn't quite decide how to begin, perhaps I
should start with a selection of every day decisions that I and
presumably many other people struggle with on a daily basis, perhaps
I should narrate the thoughts going through my mind as I struggle to
make an almost impossible decision, before doing a hilarious pull
back and reveal to the incredibly simple decision I am actually faced
with, another option could be to build a case claiming that
indecisiveness is actually a debilitating condition and attempting to
collect for a made up charity to support the victims of
indecisiveness across the world.
All great idea's but all ideas I came up with
after the brilliant idea I had originally to pretend I couldn't
decide how to begin, after which I was forced to come up with
feasible ideas for how else it could be started, ironically meaning
that I had failed in my attempt to start it indecisively by actually
making a decision.
Though thinking about it now, all 3 of those ideas
sound better than what I have written so far, maybe I will go back up
and actually do one of them, I quite like the charity
one...
I have quite a bit of difficulty making decisions,
not big decisions, they're quite easy, I can book a holiday or buy a
car on a whim (availability of funds being the only potential road
block to either decision), because why think about it? If I need a
car, why not just buy one? If we want to go on holiday, just book a
holiday!
No the decisions that cause me real trouble are
the ones that seem unimportant to most, things like "What do you
want for tea?" "Do you want some of this cake or that
cake?" "Do you want to watch this tv show or that tv show
today?" The decisions just don't happen no matter how hard I
try.
I do what I can to avoid making these sort of
decisions, I will attempt to foist them off onto someone else:
"Oh you decide"
Or pretend I don't believe there is a decision to
be made or care what the outcome is:
"Oh, I don't mind"
Or if the decision is offered from a distance,
perhaps up the stairs of my house, I could make a noise that sounds
something like an answer and hope that the recipient makes the choice
or me:
"Oooeighoba".
Perhaps the reason these are so difficult is
because they have little to no bearing on the outcome of the
proceedings, they're like the start of one of those adventure games,
the ones with multiple endings, like the ones made by quantic dream -
Heavy Rain and so on, at the start you get simple decisions to make,
they give you a taste for how things work, but you will be directed
onto the next part in the same way regardless of what you decide.
Or perhaps I'm worried that it will actually turn
out to be the most important decision I ever make, that defines the
progression of my life from that point onwards, if everything went
wrong in the future, I would find myself looking back at my life and
ruing the day I so casually went for that apple pie, if only I could
have another chance, I would do it differently, I swear!
I don't know which one it is, you decide.