life is a POLL where you have to vote between choices. Voting is easy... only if you know what to DECIDE...

"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide." Napoleon Bonaparte once said. If you ask me who Napoleon is I might be confused and look stupid, but i whole heatedly agree to what he says.

When we were kids, we didn't have to make decisions; maybe that's why life was easy. The biggest worry at that time was which ice cream you need to eat during interval. Sometimes the whole morning can be spent on the decision of what you should eat. (that's for ice cream freaks like me;) when you grow up you have to make decisions, it sucks when you have to make decisions about PEOPLE.
After all, life is a POLL where you have to vote between choices. Voting is easy... only if you know what to DECIDE...

Sometimes decisions can be stupid, confusing and horrifying. Whom you should be friends with, whom you should select to continue friendships with, whom you should confide in, should you quit your job... sometimes you have to shut down people from your life. When you have to do that with people whom you were friends with, believe me it can be the toughest thing to do. But sometimes to move on, to be happy you need to shut down certain people out of your life.

There is a misconception among us that only weak people turn down chances without accepting, it is a weakness to reject and shut down. Always the "positive" decision is considered as the best one. But everyone forgets how hard it is to make the less favored decision (in the eyes of the world) and live with it.

When Sonia Ghandi turned down the position of the post of Prime Minister in India in 2004, Lot of expertise people said different things. She turned down the most powerful position in India. The most powerful position of which most people would die to have, and that exactly is where her STRENGTH lies in. Strength to deny the most powerful position, to lead a nation…

There comes a time when every life goes off course. In this desperate moment you must decide your direction. Will you fight to stay on the path while others tell you how wrong you are? Or will you just run away? Will you be honored by your choice?
"Every once in a while people step up, they rise above themselves. Sometimes they surprise you, and sometimes they fall short. Life is funny sometimes, it can push pretty hard, but if you look close enough you find hope in the words of children, in the bars of a song and in the eyes of someone you love"

Sometimes we need to accept decisions of others and respect them. It doesn't necessarily have to be the correct decision in our mind set, people think differently. After all it takes lot of thought, courage and effort for one to make a decision and stand by it. The rest of us should support without being judgmental…