Right vs. Wrong

I sometimes find myself facing personal or business situations where I must choose between what is seemingly right and wrong. Unfortunately, most of the time in these situations, especially in business, I feel that it is impossible or at a minimum difficult to know for sure what is the correct choice. What I might perceive in one moment to be a wrong choice could very easily, in some future hindsight, reveal itself as the right choice. Contrarily at other times, when I can't bring myself to make a choice and instead decide to do nothing, I could easily find out that doing nothing was exactly the wrong thing to be doing.

Complicating all of this sometimes, and further blurring these sticky situations, is often the definition behind these right and wrong choices. It is frequent that I wonder if I am being thorough in my definitions of what is "right" or "wrong." It's simply not always clear what path is the path I should be on.

This is just another aspect of what we call the human condition. With our consciousness comes the ability to analyze and use logic in our decision making. Add to that the fact that we all look with some amount of fear at times to the unknown of the future and the unpredictability of our lives and what a condition it truly reveals itself to be.

Furthermore, our emotions and emotional attachements often lead us astray or at a minimum often get in the way. We are human. And being human in our human condition, we feel. That is what life is. It is feelings. Those feelings cause us so much trouble at times though. Especially when we are faced with these situations where we must decide right from wrong. Our emotions can lead us in a direction that logic may tell us is not the "right" direction and vice versa. Logic and emotion are, suffice it to say, strange bedfellows.

I have learned that for me, it takes a process of compartmentalization in order to get as close as I can to a sense of direction. That and faith. Faith is just another word for confidence. So when I confidentally compartmentalize situations, I find myself feeling as much a sense of direction as is possible for these types of situations. I mostly still don't truly know what the "right" choice is but at least I know I feel like I am making the best choice possible.

Most importantly, given that I often feel that my definitions of "right" and "wrong" are incomplete at best, I believe that using ones own internal guidance system - that inner voice that we all talk to and converse with everyday - is truly the best way to seal the deal on these types of choices. No matter how much I draw lines in the sands of my mind, I always end up in some kind of dialogue with my inner guidance system over whether or not I've drawn the right lines in the right places.

At the end of the day though, when the choices have been made, what really matters the most is that faith. Faith that my inner dialogue has been complete. Faith that no matter what, the Universe is good and everything happens for a reason. Faith that nothing is final. Faith that God must be a forgiving God given that this human condition does not clearly reveal to us the "right" choices. Faith that no matter what, everything will be OK.