Hazardous consideration

Careful consideration of what to do sounds like an obvious, prudent thing for anyone to do.

Of course we should be thoughtful about where we spend our time and energy.

It is such a righteous-sounding approach that many would be forgiven for not finding fault in it.

And yet there is an obvious problem: it’s entirely possible to spend all of your time wondering about what to do and end up having done nothing.

This phenomenon can sneak up on us in any time scale: a day, week, month, year, decade, a whole lifetime.

Using the desire to think more to justify doing something later is a slippery slope that blurs the lines between the valid need to make important considerations and using thinking as a crutch to uphold our hesitation indefinitey.

At some point we all need to learn to say, “I’m done thinking about it” and venture past the point of no return.

Otherwise what was the real point of all that thinking?