Saturday, September 10, 2011

King of Sub-optimal choices

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Let me warn once again - this is going to be one more self-complaining yet contradictingly complementing post; and perhaps reaching no conclusion..


This is not an of-late finding, but I have frequently observed myself making weird choices and decisions, that are more often than not second to the best !

Taking for instance the new phone  that I selected for my mother - had seen a decent camera dual sim phone, but on the verge of purchasing; changed to a non camera dual sim querty phone !
Going back a little - the choice of pursuing MTech  immediately after my undergrad seems so very sub-optimal now; considering that I had a very good job offer in hand !
And even further back - switching over to computer science  for B.E, when my passion was electronics then was a similar scenario - though it has not turned out to be a total blunder...
And this conscience crops up in things big or small  - right from insignificant grocery purchases to life changing decisions(if any taken until now)

I have reasoned out two main things for such happenings:
 - one is the more than needed trust I place in the words of others who speak in favour of the "second-best thing" when making the choice.
- second is the inherent indecision that rests within me; that probably gets amplified when taking a decision.

One thing about such choices is that they dont turn out to be totally useless or less beneficial - but they do leave a small glitch about not being best of best; that surfaces time and again..

How many of you have had such similar experiences ???


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