I wrote about being at a crossroads in life a few days ago after watching the wolf of wall street. Well, this coming week is when the moment of truth is going to land with thump and not let me do anything else but make me make it go away. Which means I’ll have to make a few life critical decisions.

Thanks to D I’ve realised how much of an impact words really have on our life. And with that knowledge I stepped back and thought about what I had just written. LIFE CRITICAL DECISIONS. That just sounds so… important… and so… awful. What if I drop the ‘Life critical’ bit from the Decisions? Ok, lemme repeat what I just wrote without the heavy words : Well, this coming week is when the moment is going to happen and I’ll take care of it. Which means I’ll be taking a few decisions.

Whoa! suddenly it doesn’t sound like such a big deal after all.  On another note, how I’ll come out on the other side of this week is anybody’s guess right now. Ok. Let me rephrase that too. On another note, whatever decision I take, everything’s gonna turn out fine in the end in any case.

Phew. Well that problem looks like it’s sorted itself out.

I also realise how taking seemingly big decisions is a part of growing up. It’s the part of ‘acting like it’. When we were kids, our parents used to take the decisions for us. When we were growing up, the system also came along to take decisions for us – like what subjects should I study and how much tax should I pay and when should I leave the pub. Now that I am 30, a lot of heavy lifting has to be done by self. Not that I mind it ofcourse.

The only thing I do mind is when someone thinks that I am incapable of taking the decisions. Like the parents for example – they just won’t let you feel like you’ve grown enough. It’s always an uphill battle to remind then that they were probably being more responsible with their own lives when they were this age than what they allow me to be.

With pretty much half my life spent, sometimes it sucks that I still have to struggle to explain to them that they don’t need to be worried. Sigh.