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Making decisions is the easy part. If we can never guarantee an outcome, never fully understand the consequences of our actions in the long term, and rarely understand what we need in the first place, then the decision between several options—options that already seem right to us—objectively matters very little. It is uncertainty without recourse.

The parts we should be concerned about are those consequences—what to do with and how to react to what we’ve been given, how we let it shape who we become, and how it will unfold in the context of our lives. This is uncertainty with a chance to navigate our way out.

Making a decision will not determine our fate. But our reaction to the consequences of such a decision—does. Because even if we do not make a decision, life will.

We should stop becoming constantly bogged down by indecision and a fear of the future—this fear that one misstep could ruin the remainder of our lives. Perhaps it will. But the real indicator of personal failure is the deterioration of our soul to be stripped down to such a paucity of mental resilience in the first place, where one mere misstep is capable of destroying our experience of life. We are never ready enough for what this life may bring, but we can be humble. We can be vigilant. We can constantly remember why we’re here and who we set out to be. And that will make us as ready as we can be.