Journey into Faith

The Problem of Indecision

Which do you prefer:

Blue, Yellow, Red, White or Black?

Movie, Bowling, Skating, Shopping, Bar Hopping or Gaming?

French Fries, Hamburgers, Spaghetti, Fried Chicken or Grilled Pork?

Jeans, Skirts, Shorts, Pants or Jumpsuits?

Sneakers, Flipflops, Wedges, Flats or Boots?

With make-up or no make-up?

To go or to stay?

To hold on or to let go?

To continue working here or to resign and apply for another company?

To take up Nursing or Engineering?

How many times have we encountered these situations where we find it difficult to make up our mind? 

I know, countless of times. Even after we wake up we're already faced to make a choice: to shower or not? To wear these or not? To go to school or not?

And the problem is, we just can't make up our mind! Usually, it leaves us to choose letter D in the test questions during a multiple choice exam, "None of the above" or "All of the above".

It's hard to make a choice, yes. But, choosing everything in the list or nothing at all is the worse choice there is. You need to make up your mind of what you really want and do in this life.

You can't play safe in this world. You need to make a choice.

I perceive myself as an indecisive person sometimes. I couldn't make up my mind of what I like to eat, or what I would do for the whole afternoon, and the result would be just eating food and doing things randomly without giving it much thought.

Is it wrong to just do things randomly, without giving it much thought? For me, yes. Because it makes you unstable and minimizes your potential to do something great.

This is one of the topics we had during our small group which really made a big impact to me as an indecisive person myself.

I looked up the word "indecisive" on the internet and it says "(of a person) not having or showing the ability to make decisions quickly and effectively." Is this you too?

An indecisive person is like a person who is sick. And the diagnosis of the doctor would be "problem of being indecisive." And as a person who is sick of indecision, one needs a medicine to be cured.

But before the cure is given, the person must be aware that he is sick and that he knows what sickness he has. A doctor could not prescribe a medicine to a person if he did not underwent a consultation or a check-up.