Buyers’ Remorse
I am one of those people that needs reassurance to buy a new bag or pair of shoes. Decisions, even the smallest of ones, are not easily made unless I have some input from others. Regardless of this input, regardless of whether I’m told to buy the bag or not, I make the decision I would have made in any case. It often seems that the input I routinely seek doesn’t sway my decision in either direction, but reinforces the one I had already made. But times come when, in hindsight, I wonder if I made the right choice. I’m sure we all second guess ourselves, but it’s the big decisions that seem to live forever in my mind.
It’s the decisions that are hard to carry out or follow through with that I often find myself second guessing (not surprisingly). I periodically wonder what if I had chosen otherwise? Would things be monumentally improved, or just different? I guess in the end, we need to stick to our decisions and make the best of them, despite the ever increasing urge to just run home. I may not be home yet, but I’m closer today than I was yesterday.
As Franklin D. Roosevelt once said: “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
My rope is muddled with knots, but I suppose I have one more in me. I have to continuously remind myself that it’ll all be worth it in the end.