In the previous publication I talked about the topic of decisions that seem to be transcendental but really are not. I came to the conclusion that the approach we have about that decision is what really makes it seem as something transcendental for us, and not so much the real effect it causes.
Now I am interested in talking about the opposite case, those decisions that we cannot anticipate, those that simply present themselves, but I am not referring to those decisions that we can automatically identify as important and that we usually consider an opportunity, such as when we receive an unexpected offer that we know or think we know will change our situation completely, but those that in the first instance we do not identify as important, but with time we know that those decisions were highly transcendental in our lives.
You are invited to a wedding or party, are you going or not? You have to go to the other side of the country, are you going by plane or car? The time for a vacation has come, are you going to the beach or to the mountains, do you get a wallet on the street, do you take it to the authorities or do you personally return it to its owner? Keeping it is not even a considerable possibility. So what do you do?
Any of these decisions can have consequences that we did not consider in advance. Let's take the first situation as an example; maybe at the party you meet a person, and after talking to that person for a few hours he invites you to attend the rehearsal of an amateur play, a supporting actor could not attend, so they ask you to help them by playing that character, since you have taken the trouble to go there you decide to help them, the director of the play is delighted with your spontaneous performance, and even thinks that the main role would be appropriate for you, and so you start a career in show business when you didn't even know you could act, and best of all, maybe you discover that this is what you really wanted to do all this time.
These are the kind of situations that happen when we make these decisions, so that deciding to go to that party and then accepting the invitation to the rehearsal could be even more decisive than the moment when you chose the university career you studied, even though it probably took you a considerable amount of time to choose one career and the other one just had to do with your passing mood.
It is a really interesting matter of approach, because the difference between one type of decision and another is basically that to one we give a premeditated importance and to the other we give almost no importance at all. This has solid reasons, because although it is true that something similar to the example I described can happen in our lives, it is also true that we cannot know which decision will be really transcendental, which leads us to the conclusion that perhaps we should face these "big decisions" with less stress and those decisions that apparently do not seem to be transcendental with some expectation and emotion.
