Despite some of the mistakes and wrong choices that I have made, just as much as anyone may have, I consider myself more ethical than religious – the difference being the origins of dogmata. And if I hadn’t misunderstood Antosh’s idea of God being right, I’m not planning to go into the religious concepts of His omniscience. So why is God always right?

There’s a God in every one of us

Having pretty much finished The Road Less Travelled (the last chapter is less thought provoking than the rest of it, but does round it off quite well), I think the idea that intrigued me the most was that everyone is religious, simply not necessarily to a personal God. God, is more like a peace of mind, a tranquility that we find inside ourselves. Hence the notion, “listen to your heart. You’ll know the answer,” being analogous to God’s omniscience.

Confirmation Bias

In psychology and cognitive science, confirmation bias is a tendency to search for or interpret new information in a way that confirms one’s preconceptions and avoids information and interpretations which contradict prior beliefs.

After weeks of break from Criminal Minds, I was finally able to come back to the a BAU case, one where SSA Rossi returned to the case that has been haunting him for 20 years.

…there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein, US (Polish-born) composer & pianist (1886 – 1982)

So it’s all quite simple really. We have a God in every one of us that seeks out to confirm His thoughts. Being able to remain objective about life – that just takes you to a completely different realm.

I do love my wife more than I loved my girlfriend, and they are the same person

- C’mon, Get Happy? It’s Easier Said Than Done.,washingtonpost.com -

Going over my regular RSS feeds this evening and sinfully wilfing around this evening, I found myself reading a short article on Choices and Happiness.

For as long as I have remembered, I’m not a particularly good decision maker. Over the years I’ve come to realise two things about this flaw that I once considered of myself having

• It’s not any single person’s problem
• The dilemma never gets better, but the choice maker does

So when I first saw myself pretty much never making the right choices at the right times, I thought it was a Libran thing, especially a few of Libran friends around me all seem to be having the same problem. Through time, however, it doesn’t take much IQ-juice to figure out that pretty much everyone goes through a stage of either (or both) making the wrong choices or (and) not being able to make them soon enough.

Still, life progresses. And as important that it progresses, it’s just as crucial that the progress is experienced. Personally, it’s the fact that such experiences make one a better decision maker. From which point, a better-ed decision maker acknowledges the more complex decisions ahead. Life would always hit you with tougher choices. Period.

Being able to let go what you could be losing by not travelling the other path – that’s what brings happiness in making choices.