Your decisions help define your future self (4 Jan 2024)

Did you ever have to make a quick decision? One with real world consequences. One where there is a danger to health, life, or property. Were you able to take in a lot of information all at once? Did you feel overwhelmed? We do not always get time to reason out our decisions. To analyze the facts. To deliberate over our options. Sometimes we have but seconds to choose. For most of us in our adult lives, I think, do not have to make those types of life altering decisions. If we miss an arbitrary deadline often times we just set a new deadline. This story is about one such real world, potentially life altering event.