What Guides Our Big Life Decisions?
I'm shocked sometimes by the choices people other than me make in life. But that's kind of a given, isn't it? We're each ourselves, so necessarily, we don't know why other people do what they do. Everyone has a different order of priorities when it comes to making decisions. For me, big life decisions first have to answer yes for this question: will this be good for my mental health? This initial question hasn't exactly served me well in life in every instance. I'm not fully employed right now, and this has something to do with it. But other people might not even ask themselves about their mental health when deciding things. Maybe their first question is, "Will this make me a lot of money?" Or, "Will this make me look good to those I might date?" The questions we start with are shaped by our current circumstances, but also our past experiences. I ask about mental health because I have several people in my family with a range of mental he...
