Restless thoughts

In my last 2 days here, taking a break from the hulchul of sorting, shopping, packing and meeting, I have to stop and ask: "Is there ever one right choice?"

People from one angle obviously feel that a decision is right or wrong when seen through their prism. They don't know the one you're using to evaluate circumstances.

The way I see it is that there are only two certainties: I was born. I will die. What goes on between the two, what will make anyone happy, what is good or bad... who knows? I'm not advocating total relativism. The question is going through my mind and I will have ample time to find out as I go along.

In the end, isn't all the counts that you simply follow your heart and take yourself closer to inner peace, or are there more important things? Can you choose in such a way as to forestall regret, or do you simply make the "best" decision within a given situation and live with it?

People who seem so much more categorical about their choices than I am often puzzle me. I have convictions, but no certainties. With some luck (or wisdom) I'll be that sure when I'm seventy.

And of course, beyond my self-centred reflexions over the past few weeks, there have been earthquakes, hurricanes, trials, deaths, Nobel prizes, lock-outs, a woman Chancellor, H5F1, explosions, births...