Decisions

I don't know if I should be telling anyone this. I'm pretty sure other people will not appreciate this as the fine form of decision making that it is because it is. Be patient. You will see.

I have used this technique to make two highly important decisions today. Yes, two in the same day, it is a miracle of science.

Well maybe not science.

So this afternoon, I had a big decision to make. And that decision was... what to have for dinner. On the one hand, I could stick to the tried and true, something that was already suited to my taste. On the other hand, I could go for something new and different and oh wow, what a difficult decision. I was torn. So...

I flipped a coin. The coin told me to be adventurous. So I was. It was an adequate decision.

Then! Tonight, I was again faced with a dilemma. I had just finished running (I am thinking about doing a 5k in a few months. Scary!) and I remembered that I had made a somewhat promise to go out this evening. But! It is cold! But then again! I had made a promise! So what did I do?

You got it. I flipped a coin. The coin said to stay in. Which I am doing, but with amendments, because I will leave later, after my hair dries. Well, kind of dries.

See, this is the greatness that is coin-flipping-decision-making. It kind of takes the pressure off of you, but if you decide to go against the coin, you can! What's going to happen? The coin isn't going to get mad. Plus, it maybe helps put things into perspective. See, if I had truly hated the decision that the coin handed me, I would have thought twice about it, and in the act of thinking twice about it, I would have realized that perhaps, deep down, I really wanted to do something else. Also, if I go along with what the coin directs and I hate it---I get to blame the coin! It's an instant scapegoat!

I was introduced to this concept by a friend in Seoul, and have been a faithful disciple ever since. Of course, it's not always a perfect solution. Sometimes, if you flip the coin, it might roll under something and then you would lose it, and then you would have to find another coin to flip and what if you found the original coin so that the two flips canceled each other out? Or what if you didn't have a coin? I feel like the chances of that are pretty slim, but I suppose it's possible. I guess what I'm trying to say is... restrictions do apply. Coin-flipping cannot answer anything.

I know for a fact that it's horrible at multiple choice questions.

And essays.


Also, it's probably not a good way to answer super important questions. Like, "Will you marry me?" I mean, even if the coin told you to say yes, it might be hard to explain to the proposer why you had to resort to it in the first place. Use the power of the coin wisely.