Hesitations

There was one time, we were on our way to our store, actually, we're just a turn away from our store since our building is located at a corner and there happens to be an intersection road in front of our store.

As I was saying, we were only one turn away when my brother who's driving that time has stopped for a while to give way to a guy who's struggling to cross the street. As I have also noticed, the guy has been struggling to cross the street for a few times then before we finally gave him way.

Not that I am judgmental but based on my judgment, or my observation rather, he must be someone who's not used on crossing the streets or he's just too scared to finally make a step forward and he just needs a little push or on that case, a go signal, before he actually moves forward. Either way, the hesitation can be seen on his action and at that very moment, I just realized a few things about what we are losing if we keep on hesitating about doing the things that we should be doing.

We lose opportunities

There are situations that requires immediate actions, or decisions, and hesitating is delaying us to make that action or decision and once we have made up our mind, the opportunity is already gone.

Like the guy on the road, he lose a lot of opportunities to cross the street because of hesitating. Well, I do understand his hesitations, in life, it is indeed scary to make a step without knowing what lies ahead of us.

First step is usually the hardest. There are countless of possibilities whether we can make it or nor, whether we can do it or not. Taking the first step is so crucial and it requires a lot of courage and sometimes, before actually making the first step, we tend to overthink things that is delaying us to move forward. And when the moment comes that we finally made up our mind, the opportunity is already gone.

It is a must that we know that even though we take a step on our own pace, we also have to be time wise with regards to making decisions. Opportunities will come but it won't stay forever. Opportunities will come but we have to grab it for us to be able to make use of it.

It prolongs out agony

There are things that are inevitable and we cannot do something about it. It will happen, it is meant to happen.

Do you believe that there is no secret that can be hidden forever? Because I do. It is such a burden to carry such secret. I remember, there was this one time, I have broken my brother's favorite mug but I am so afraid to tell him. Of course, I hide all the evidence but after a few days, he began looking for that mug and later on, I admitted that I broke it accidentally.

I was so anxious about what will be his reaction so I was really surprised when he said nothing else. He just let it slipped, he didn't scold me. And I realized that my nervousness is for nothing. I just prolonged the agony, I should've come clean the moment I broke it.

You see, there are things that we cannot stop from happening so let us not waste our time thinking about it. If you want to say something, just say it. This is also applicable to our tasks. Warning for procrastinators, if you don't want to be hit by this, be sure to go to your hiding spot.

Procrastinators keeps on delaying things that they have to do and tend to rush when the deadline is near. Well, people, we are just prolonging the agony. We relax now and cram later, which is definitely not a good habit but I myself is guilty of it so I won't say any more things about it.

Hesitating is understandable. Who doesn't experience to hesitate before making a decision first? I guess there is none. But what am I saying is that we should not hesitate too much. I mean, as I have said, we have to be time wise. At some point, we have to muster all our courage to finally make a step forward, to grab the opportunity in front of us, or to chase the opportunity if ever it already went past us.

Let us not waste any more opportunities because of overthinking, because we doubt ourselves, and because we lose the confidence that we can do it.

Trust in yourself, you can do it. If you want it, go for it. If you see an opportunity, an opening, grab it. Stop overthinking, would you? You got to take the risk. Take a step, move forward. I believe in you.

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