Take the first step

Daily writing prompt

Describe a decision you made in the past that helped you learn or grow.

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Our present position or the situation we are in, is the combination of all decisions we have taken every moment in the past.

In the past, many a times the choices used to be so overwhelming that no decision could be taken OR decision taking process itself used to cause stress. Popularly this is also known as “paralysis of action”

Then came computers and along with them computor games. Once you start playing, there are many options. You choose an option and the game unfolds. Continuously you have to keep on choosing options using all the buttons, toggles and controls. Accordingly game keeps on unfolding.

So is with life . You take first step and options start showing. You keep on choosing options and accordingly life unfolds. Perhaps this is what the theory of Karma and destiny, in Hindu mythology, explains – You take actions and accordingly you will get what is in store for you.

The most important for everything to happen is taking first step. That is what I learnt playing computor games. Sitting and doing nothing, leave aside the game, even computor screen switches off. Actions, adventures, excitements, heartbreaks happen only after you start playing the game.

So I took a decsion long back of evaluating all options and then without wasting time deciding on first step and then let situation unfold. That is what perhaps Nike mean by its tagline- Just do it. That is what perhaps Johny Walker means when it says – Keep walking.

There have been successes, failures, excitments, happiness, heart breaks but there are no regrets. Successes have given rewards, failures have given experience and wisdom and have opened more options.

Till date, every new day I begin with taking the first step.