Ramblings of a Bored Individual.

Warning: Dont read the below topic and come up all cylinders firing for an argument on what you think about it. It is exactly what the title states it is.

If a person was ever asked as to why he takes a particular decision, sometimes, that person would come up with a well reasoned answer. But what if for every time that a decision is taken and the person has no idea as to why he took it. Or rather let me put it this way- if the person feels that the decision he is taking is right but has no explanation for it, then is his decision making process flawed? I would tend to think so but we see so many things in everyday life where things just go see saw on their own basis (if you notice closely, the see sawing happens due to the decisions that you take but you are not even aware of it). So are we all living a life of farce? what makes us decide that we ll eat the cheeseburger rather than the chicken tikka where the indicated level of fat on both is the same and we like the taste of both? there seems to be no good reason available and yet when you feel queasy in the evening, you ve probably forgotten the reason for having the cheeseburger and are only deciding if to take eno or hajmola. another decison that has no reason attached to it. So, if we are able to take decisions about our own existence in a fraction of a second and giving the reason that 'it felt right', why do we all waste so much time in worrying about the other decisions of life? why is it that we break our head trying to figure out if the computer science course at harvard or stanford is better cos honestly it makes no difference? Why cant just apply our daily logic to it and say 'right, eeny meeny miny mo' and thats the way to go?

I have been thinking about this and I have a reason now. We sit and reason out decisions that we perceive are close to us or important to us because they have a calculated number of outcomes(in theory atleast! don blame me if you did comp sci at harvard and still don have a job paying twice your worth). If we tried to calculate the same kind of logic to the cheeseburger or chicken tikka issue, we d probably be stuck all day at the food counter and still worrying about it. Everytime you decided on what colour shirt you wanted to wear and tried to reason it, chances are that you ll get dressed in 2 hours instead of 10 mins and still be in no better position to explain why. Another reason for this is also that the deadlines for the stuff we reason for is far more relaxed than our daily logic. If you did not decide on the cheeseburger, your hunger would get hold of you and you d still be stuck in the evening with the decision on saridon or metacine for your headache. So i guess life is lived by people taking complex decisions for simpler outcomes and waving off the decision making process on something that makes you survive. Funny aint it?