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Decisions are the hardest part of life

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Making choices is never easy. Why would they be? If you have a decision to make you can find yourself at a cross road, wondering what would happen if you did this or did that. Sometimes all you get is a split second to make that choice and most of the time people go with the decision that they soon regret. They find themselves stuck in figuring out if this is what they want, or what someone else wants. Choices are never just your own, there are influencers all over the place. Your friends, your family, social media..it's everywhere. And that's scary. You never know if you are actually making the choices you do every day or if you are somehow being influenced by the things you see or what you think someone could want. You're probably thinking about all the decisions you've made over the last few days right now, wondering if you really had a say in them. Choices are something people take for granted because some people don't have them, they don't have the freedom to make their own decisions. If you think you're stuck in a big decision take a step back from it all and really imagine how much of an influence this choice will have on your life. Wonder just what could happen if you did this or did that, because you have the ability to do so. Don't let someone make you think you want to do something when you really don't, do it for you not because you think you have to.

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