Decisions

 I made a good decision when I was 18 years old. It benefited me even up to today. I wanted to leave home as soon as I turned 18. I still had six months of my senior year of High School left. I made the decision to stick it out until I had a High School diploma. Now as a 60 Plus-year-old and thinking how decisions affect us for many years. I am thankful for making a good decision. As it was I felt inadequate working with people that had an engineering degree, and I wonder if I had felt even worse had I not finished high school. Maybe they wouldn't have even hired me to begin with. I had a really good job and I wonder would I have done as well without a high school diploma. When we make a decision we suffer the consequences good or bad and even our families feel the consequences of our decisions. I bought a house when I was 21 years old. I really didn't know what I was doing but it was a good decision and benefited me for many years to come. I have made bad decisions and had regrets. Sometimes we make a decision that we should know will affect us for many years to come even before we make it. We choose a mate and get married, this woman becomes the mother of our children and I can tell you that I did not give due consideration to this major decision. If I ask even hard questions would I have seen red flags? My children grew up with the mother I chose. It affected me, my children, and even affects my grandchildren. I have regrets about the decision I made and went through a divorce. For 47 years I have lived with that decision and it was more important of a decision that I made with several homes I bought, some of the jobs I held. I chose to join churches, some were good decisions and some were bad. Did I ask enough questions for many of these decisions?  I remember when my Granddaughter Callia was at that age of asking a lot of questions. She would ask why, and you answer that question and she would ask why again. I said you ask too many questions and do you know she stopped asking questions. I regret that today, she was at an age where she was learning a lot, and asking all these questions is a good thing. I hope she grows up and asks lots of questions about the decisions she makes. I think if we ask enough questions, even difficult questions perhaps we would make decisions with fewer regrets.  God bless, LVZ.