In his day to day life, man has to make decisions regularly.

Man will think that the decisions being made are his.

He will attribute the occasional fruitful results to his "talent", "skill" or "luck",

and except maybe sharing it with his near and dear ones,

he will do his best to hide away the results that cause him loss or pain.

Little does he know, that the decisions are not his.

And that he labels as "deciding" is an act that he does not really understand

For when he decides, it is not really him deciding.

It is his owner, his puppeteer, his Mind.

Oh, I hear you say ...

"But, my mind is a part of me"

To which, I will say ...

If you are whitewashed to the point that you "believe" this statement,

you are better of not reading the rest of this post.

For what I write is not for believers or followers.

For what I write is not for the common or the average.

It is for the ones whose default state of being is one of

tinkering, questioning and not settling for what is just given.

It is for the ones who have had enough of their mundane life

and are ready to commence a journey to the wilderness and to the unknown,

in the search of that which even they do not "believe" exists or is possible.

Back to making decisions ...

Imagine for a minute, a man living, tethered to very many points in space

through invisible ropes and strings.

These hooks to unknown points, either he cannot see or touch,

but pull or strum any one of them, and he feels a jolt of a certain emotion.

As he goes about his day, the number and the intensity of these connections,

determines, not just how and what emotions he feels at a given point of time,

independent of the task that he may be performing,

but also, and most importantly, the direction towards which he will steer his life.

When such a literally hooked and imprisoned man needs to make a decision,

be it that of switching professions,

selecting between new professional opportunities,

continuing or abandoning a relationship (personal or otherwise),

deciding something related to his family or near and dear ones

or of any other nature,

how effective will he be in his act?

Will he actually be able to make a decision?

Will he not just end up responding to the commotion

of the tetherings caused by the circumstances,

and the sudden need to decide?

Will the decision be independent of all the things not related to the main situation at hand?

Will, he not, precisely, do the opposite?

And end up mixing matters unrelated to the main answer being sought, into the decision?

And finally, what impact will the decision have on his present predicament,

of his entrapment and his inability to see the ropes and tethers,

and act with a clear conscience?

Will it not further imprison him?

Will it not create even more ropes and tethers?

But what does all the ropes, the tethers and the failure to decide, has to do with the Mind?

You see, when one lives within the confines of their Mind,

they cannot help but live their life

attached and tethered to such invisible and unreachable points.

The only difference is that,

such hooks do not exist outside in space,

they exist inside of them.

Their day to day existence is the torment of spending time taught to one

tether at a time, only to lose slack in the next moment and getting pulled towards another.

And as they oscillate uncontrollably between these hooks on the inside,

they vacillate on the outside when trying to act or decide.

And as they "live" their life, these hooks not only cause them all the

pain, anger, excitement, joy, and remorse that they feel,

they deprive them, perhaps, of the greatest joy available to the mortal human being ...

The joy of living a completely free and thus, blissfully fulfilling life.

Thank you.