Omens of Convenience

Sometimes we just need to take the path of least resistance because it is the path of least resistance. Sometimes I see these as omens or signals from the universe, but usually it just means that there are mysteries to uncover first, or that our enthusiasm favors one and not the other.

In this case, I thought I was about to dive into the Tao Te Ching and blog about it, but I cannot find the portable crate I use to transport it and my partner is asleep, so I guess the other thing I wanted to work on will happen instead.

This can even be a brainhack: if you have two good choices in a situation, you can set your mind to the one you're more resistant toward and just see how it feels. It might be more scary than you realized, or it may be that yours reasons for resistance come up and clarify your resistance. Either way, the choice becomes easier just by mimicking having made a decision.

Some day I should write about all the workarounds I've developed to minimized difficult decisions and/or make them not really decisions. TL;DR: hone and stick to your ethics, think through consequences, and understand the stakes for others as well as yourself.

(I really hope I didn't leave my books in Galveston... there were $50-100 in books there, some of which had nostalgic as well as material rarity.)