How To Make Last-Minute Decisions, Part 1 | a Story by Joely Perets

I Discover Something (In the Last Minute)

12:0something. School break-time. I’m trying, as usual, to talk to people, when —

“Hey, are you going to the Open Day at Kol Ami tomorrow?”

Wait, what? “It’s tomorrow? I didn’t know that!”

“Yeah. You can sign up. Here, I’ll send you the link.”

“Great!” Not great. Shoot — that changes all my plans!

It will be a great opportunity socially. There’ll be loads of nice, Anglo-Saxon people I can talk to, plus some people I’m already getting better friends with at school. And it will be a great chance to improve my relationship with my cousin, who’ll be there too.

If the people in my life, and the depth of my relationships with them really are my first priority in life, I should obviously go.

And yet … and yet …

You! (Yep, Talking to You)

You know this situation. Something absolutely fantabulous comes up, but it utterly clashes with your plans and what you wanted to do! Now what?

If you don’t go, you’ll regret it. If you do, you might. There are too many question marks to know for sure what to do.

Your systems collapse. You waste time.

Reasons pop up for why you shouldn’t do it. Other instincts say you should.

What do you do when this happens? How do you cope? Feel free to leave a comment here, I’d love to hear from you!

I Fail to Deal Efficiently (Pretty Annoying)

I spend ages on WhatsApp messenger, trying to find out what’s happening. Trying to make up my mind.

But after wasting a bunch of time and energy, I decide to go.

Was It a Good Choice?

I take a deep breath. I have no idea. There’s a touch of danger. A messed up plan. Tasks I’m already behind on … and yet there’s only one way of finding out if it’s a good choice.

Going through with it.

So I s’pose this is to be continued. Tomorrow.

Cheers, for now. G’night.

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