There are certain moments in life when decisions cannot be made. In technicality, they can, but no matter how much effort you put in to analyze the processes and the outcomes, it will almost always come out negative.
Let’s take an example.
Imagine you’re in a scenario where you’re very, truly, achingly, hungry as fuck and it’s been raining hard outside for the past two hours. No sign of stopping either. It just keeps going on and on. You look up the weather forecast on your phone, (which you personally don’t trust in yourself. Who does in these kinds of days anyway?) and it says it’s going to keep raining for the next five hours. There’s a storm coming. You look inside your fridge and there’s literally nothing left besides a bottle of water and an egg.
“I can make a boiled egg!” you think to yourself with a sense of relief.
After all, boiled eggs can fill your stomach pretty well with almost zero preparation. Boiled eggs are also very nutritious. And didn’t you know, they are yummy!
But as soon as you pick up the egg, the only one left out of the tray, a huge wind knocks it the fuck onto the ground. The egg gets smashed.
“Fuck!”
Outside, you’re left with a mess on the ground.
Inside, you are saddened to no end. You’re disappointed. You want to bawl your eyes out. You want to punch the refrigerator so hard that it breaks, that will make you forget about your hunger.
You are then left with three options:
1. Get your raincoat or umbrella, or both, some massive dedication and go to the nearest grocery store to buy something to cook or to a local restaurant. By the time you get home, you will get wet and might even get sick, but at least your stomach won’t beg for anything anymore.
2. You try to order some food through your phone, then you find out that there are zero drivers willing to drive in this kind of rain. And if they do, you might feel guilty for making them drive in this weather while you’re chilling at home with blankets, tucked in, Netflix on and music blasting…you spoiled brat. Not to mention that the prices are three fold in this kind of weather. Not a good option.
3. Be hungry for the rest of the day, possibly until you sleep because life is a bunch of sufferings after sufferings.
There are no best options. Only the least worst.
Here’s where I think the example given kind of resembles the Murphy’s Law in a way to me.
It’s not, to be specific, that something that can go bad, will go bad. It’s just that once in a while in life, whatever decision you may choose when you’re faced with two, or even three of them, you will get a bad ending NO MATTER WHAT.
You WILL be hungry again after you eat. Just like the fact that your parents WILL get old.
You WILL lose your money. You WILL lose your fame and attention.
You WILL get a minor to major injuries at some point in your lives.
You WILL face pain.
And free will or no free will, there’s no debate. You WILL face death. You WILL lose your loved ones.
Now that’s something to contemplate about on a stormy day.
And please, stay safe everyone.
One last thing, don’t forget: You WON’T be here forever.
So enjoy the decisions. Even the bad ones.
Minh Tu Le
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