Blankets, Decisions

Daily Meditation 817–5/25/2024

Do you live somewhere with exceptionally cold winters? The UP of Michigan? Saskatchewan? Maybe Lapland?
If so, then you may understand how bedtime can sometimes a bit of a calculus: how many blankets will I need?

If it’s 0F outside (or even -20F) youmay decide on piling 3, 4, or 5+ blankies on your bed.

But when you make that decision, what is your reasoning?

Are you deciding based on how (cold) you feel right now?
Or, are you deciding based on how (cold) you’ll feel later, when asleep?

Probably the former, not the latter…And if you’re like me, you wake up sweating bullets around midnight, peeling off a couple layers!

This is unfortunately how we make myriad decisions in our lives. We are deciding something — generally more important than blankets on a chill evening — based on our emotions and feelings now and failing to consider the results of such a decision later.

Your spouse has been cheating on you for years with many partners…hell, they even were intimate with you after being intimate with someone else and they didn’t shower. Yuck. What an experience of disgust this would create for many of us…