DECISION MAKING - DO WE HAVE TO REPENT?

PERSONAL DECISION MAKING - DECISION IMPLICATION GRAPH

Decision making involves choosing among available alternatives. If there are only two choices, which are like devil and deep sea, a dilemma arises. We can minimise dilemmas by exploring and identifying more alternatives.

Decision-making have implications. No impact or result is also one implication.

Short term decisions have not only short term implications, but also long term implications.

Long term decisions have not only long term implications, but also short term implications.
Pl. see the graph:

Example:
"In the moment of passion, fortune may be despised, but it ever produces a lasting repentance."
-- Oliver Goldsmith, English dramatist (1728-74).
in his play "She stoops to conquer".

Spoken by : Character Miss Neville Constance.
Spoken to: her lover Hastings.
Occasion: Hastings proposed to her to elope with him, leaving the
fortune which she should get from her villainous aunt. It was
in the form of jewellery.

The decision involved here is a long term decision with both short term and long term implications. Short term implication: Bliss. Long term implication: Loss of jewellery, which may result in life time repentance.

Decision: Miss Neville persuaded her lover to wait, as she preferred to approach the elders for redressal of their grievances. Fortunately the elders permit them to marry and also ask the villainous aunt to return the jewellery.

Comment: Timing of a decision is very important.