How do we really know what is "right"

How do we know what is “right”

This post is a little bit different from the normal odd random happening from my life. We are going to take a break and wonder for just a moment, how do we really know what is “right”. Does it make something the “right” thing to do because it will best help us? Or perhaps is the thing “right” because it is what is best for others? Does “right” mean that it is the least hurtful or harmful? Maybe we know what is “right” by listening to what others tell us, or maybe by listening to the little voice inside of use. And occasionally the “right” thing to do is only “right” for a moment.

Life is full of our hard choices. Sometimes we have to keep the best wishes or well being of others, before that of our own. Or do we really have to?  I find that when my mind is full of dilemmas, it also begins to wonder how I really know what the right decision to make really is. Sometimes what sounds right before they happen; really turn out to be the worst one after they are done. And once in a while what feels the worst to me as I am doing it may actually be what the best thing to do really was. Quandaries of the mind can sometimes be so over whelming and even tear our heads apart. The leave us confused about which route is the best one to take in life. What may be right in the heart may not be right in the head or even in your wallet. And sometimes we just have to bite the big bullet and hope that as we jump off that cliff we might land on something soft and squishy.

Recently I have been at odds in my head with a big decision. This is a decision that could be life changing in many different ways, both good ways and bad. Try as I might I cannot figure what the “right” thing to do actually is. All of this wondering in my head has drawn me to one simple conclusion, sometimes we just have to take the plunge. If we wrestle so hard in our head or in our hearts to find what the “right” thing is, then we just might as well go ahead and try it. Whatever it is, so long as you know when you are stepping into it that you are not purposefully be hurting others, then that is something that is worth trying. If what I am about to do, ends up being the very wrong thing to do, then I can do my best to bow out gracefully. That is it, just now I know, that is really the only way to go.  This time, if I do kill the fly, I will do my best to give it a proper burial.