Pragmatism - the international craze that is taking our
specie by storm.
It is basically defined as:
PRAG·MA·TISM (noun)“Dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations.”
Our greed feeds this notion. Greed is more a notion of the
brain than heart, I think. I believe our brain would be the one to sneak off
with a few bucks from the charity box at the church. Our heart would be the one
that gives out half of your sandwich to the beggar standing out of your church
asking for food. A pragmatic would never give him a dime or a slice of bread.
Where is the benefit in that?
That is just the greed part of it. Maybe greed is a good
thing. When coupled with passion and zest for success, that does lead to big
deeds. When this greed seeps into the decisions that are better made from the
heart, that's when the trouble really starts. You see, I honestly believe that
there should've been some way to classify decisions that our heart and our
brain should be each allowed to undertake. Like a restaurant waitress ad her
dangerous psycho ex-husband, these two must never be allowed to hundred feats
of each other.
Our heart is stupid when it comes to taking financial
decisions, or those that affect our professional growth. At the same time our
brain is helplessly incompetent in taking any sort of emotional decisions. They
are both very strong, but better apart. The day when these two pitch in
together for a deliberate that is when you have a disaster in the making.
This is where pragmatism comes into play. Most of the
decisions that we end up regretting are the ones that we take too soon. And the
decisions that you take given time, are the ones that seem to be the most
logical ones. Sure, there are no guarantees that these are always going to be
the best option for you. But then these are the ones where you had enough time
to weigh whether you had any options at all.
Being practical, logical, rational, might sound all too
pretty. We all want to be the person who always takes the right decisions in
life, and have no regrets. However unrealistic that sounds. The only guarantee
that we can have in life is that you will make decisions that would end up being
wrong for you, and you will have your won fair share of regrets. But jumping
into things to soon, or backing away from things too soon would only increase
the probability of adding more things into the list of things you regret in
life.
Today, be pragmatic. Today, weigh your options. Today let
your heart and your brain think for themselves, and only for themselves.
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