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Can Making Choices and Doing What’s Best for You Harm Others?
Doing what’s best for you might harm others — but that’s likely beyond your control.
When I was younger, I crowned myself the King of Indecision.
I lived perpetually at a crossroads between two points. So that I wouldn’t make the wrong decision, I frequently made no decision.
No decision, no harm, right? Wrong. By not making choices and deciding for myself how my life should be — I was the plaything of the Universe. Life lived me — save some all-too-brief moments.
Thus, I bounced between jobs, homes, relationships, and spent almost 2 decades unsettled. Rather than choose and choose wrong, out of fear I avoided making choices often. I truly was the King of Indecision.
But as I began to learn how to employ mindfulness and empower conscious reality creation, I began making more choices. I started deciding things and became much less indecisive. In time, I removed and did away with my crown.
Still, from time to time, one of the fears that had driven my indecision reared its ugly head. Choices and decisions that I made caused harm to others.
However — it was not my intent to cause anyone harm. Yet sometimes things we do have unintended…
