STUDY 24: DE/CIDE

“Decisions are difficult for many reasons, some reaching down into the very socket of being. John Gardner, in his novel Grendel, tells us of a wise man who sums up his meditation on life’s mysteries in two simple but terrible postulates: “Things fade: alternatives exclude.” Of the first postulate, death, I have already spoken. The second, “alternatives exclude,” is an important key to understanding why decision is difficult. Decision invariably involves renunciation: for every yes there must be a no, each decision eliminating or killing other options (the root of the word “decide” means “slay,” as in “homicide” or “suicide”). –Yalom

JOSIANE

GOOD / LOVE

GROOM’S / DANCE

ADAM

GENERATION / SELL

ARTICLE

SO WEIT / SO GUT

E2 / E4