Friday, April 24, 2015

Day 51 : Pragmatism

 
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.”

 Meaning, do not do something because it 'feels' right. Rather because you have thought about it from an objective point of view and are now confident that the outcome of it will be to your benefit, or that you desire.

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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