When Decisions Take Care of Themselves

Sometimes, it's obvious: the rain decides the activity for the day (or the movie schedule, or the winter cold).

Sometimes, it seems that nothing will resolve a conundrum. Should I do X or Y? Should I hang out with P or Q? Will Route A or Route B be better for me in the long run. In weighing the pros and cons, advantages and disadvantages, the options seem equally good (or bad).

And then, like it or not, sometimes, Y or P or B spontaneously combusts. And all the potential inclination to do Y or hang with P or take Route B dissipates. It's actually not a happy thing, surprisingly. When you think something could be good and are then forced to recognize that you were deluding yourself...well, then...it's just not fun.

But there's hope still. Because when the decision takes care of itself, and you are left with only X to do and Q to hang with and Route A to walk down, then you are also left to find all the good in X and Q and A, without being plagued by the road not taken, since it was never really there for you anyway.