May 02, 2003

Paths

Now that I have turned my life upside down and change jobs and moved, I can look back on the paths not taken with a very different perspective. For example, I chose where to live based on about a week's worth of research over the web and word of mouth from friends in the area. If I had talked to a few less people, or researched in a slightly different way, I would have lived in a different suburb, met different people, had a different commute, lived a slightly transformation of my life right now.

This different angle haunts me, and I don't really know why since I love it here; I just feel as if I made some important decisions without all the information. But the more I think about this pretty much every decision you make is like this, and important decisions even more so. The more important the decision, the more things are affected by it, and therefore there is simply more things that you don't know about when you make it. It is amazing to me how you can make the right decision for the wrong reasons.

May 2, 2003 06:44 PM