Making Decisions: Splitting The Universe

I've always had a hard time making decisions. I hid that fact pretty well in my work life, showing confidence and bravado while my brain was fighting the "should I, or shouldn't I" battle.

The weeping and moaning of my employees who were effected negatively by my decisions, and the holier than thou attitudes of some of those people who were effected positively by my decisions did little to help in this daily mental battle. That was especially true since some of those weeping I liked, and some of those gloating I did not.

Now the real problem with making decisions is that they are important, and not just because of the obvious reasons, like weeping and moaning employees or unlikeable gloaters. They are important because we may split the universe in two every time we make a decision.

I read this while I was growing up, and I am sure it is the real cause for my slowness in making crucial decisions.

You see, some physicists believe that in this crazy quantum world of probabilities that when we make a decision between two options that another universe pops into existence where another you has decided to do the opposite.

Decide to get married to the woman of your dreams, "bam," immediately another universe forms where you have decided to let her go, and because of that decision the other you winds up living alone and desperate for the rest of their life. Decide to invest in that speculative stock, "poof," there is universe in which you are rich and a parallel one where you are dirt poor.

This forming of other universes I have found to be a pretty heavy responsibility. Think of it: every time you see a homeless person there is another guy who looks like him drinking fancy wines in a New York sushi restaurant.

I'm sure you can understand why I am becoming much more indecisive as I get older. It's because I have gotten to live in the Universe where I've made all the right decisions: And I keep thinking about all those other me's who have not.