When Do You Know This Is It?

Many times in our lives, we are faced with making decisions about several aspects: what to eat? what to wear? what party to go to? when to wake up? how much to withdraw from the bank? et cetera. But these are everyday decisions that we don't stop to think about them long enough to consider whether the alternative would have been better or because it was a bad one then the decision we made was indeed a wise one.

But there are those times when the really big decisions have to be made. Decisions that could change your life significantly or forever [from that point] such as getting married, leaving home, having a baby, starting a business. I heard someone quote a writer that most of us are not aware of the moment that changes our lives as it happens...that it is only in retrospect that they point to that particular time as when whatever change we underwent happened.

Anyway, everything happens for a reason....I don't know for what reason this is that I have decided to jump off this cliff into the unknown.....the known knowns, the known unknowns and the unknowns unknowns [any one remember Donald Rumsfeld before the US invasion of Iraq? If he known what would have become, would he have decided otherwise? Or advised the Commander-in-Chief to try the alternative? Does he regret his role in this or does he still feel that it was the best decision? Does his conscience bother him about the number of American soldiers that have so far died in Iraq?

At this point in my life, I am like Rumsfeld before that invasion...