Does it really matter if you eat green beans or corn for supper? How long do you stand in front of your canned goods trying to make up your mind? Oh dear, maybe this isn’t something you struggle with. Perhaps you can make up your mind quickly.
You take one look at the cans of Cut Green Beans and Golden Sweet Corn, and instantly you know what you want to eat.
Perhaps you walk through life always knowing what you want to eat , what you want to wear, or what you want to do with your life.
“I want green beans tonight,” you say with an air of confidence, as you open the can of fancy grade, freshly packed, Blue Lake Variety, Cut Green Beans, made with sea salt.
I envy you.
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
― William James
Tonight I stood in front of the cupboard for twenty eight years deciding what to eat. While I was waiting, I lived in Japan for seven years, California for five years, Illinois for five years, Minnesota for five years, California for three years and Pennsylvania for three years. I married, had three children, and trained a dog not to run away.
I couldn’t make up my mind if I was a weaver or a fence builder, a gardener or a breeder of goats. Am I a writer or a painter? Should I wear my hair long or short, stay fat or exercise? Die my hair or leave it naturally gray? Wear a skirt or jeans? Have only one cat or get three more.
There is only one right answer.
Is it green beans or corn? One of the answers is perfect. If I can answer the question perfectly I will be content.
If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Really, it doesn’t matter if you eat green beans or corn for supper. The green beans have 2 grams of dietary fiber and 1 gram of sugar. The corn has 3 grams of fiber and 6 grams of sugar. There is a difference, but they are both food.
There is no right answer.
Just make up your mind and eat something, wear something or do something. When you don’t make up your mind, you end up stuck.
The maxim, “Nothing prevails but perfection,” may be spelled PARALYSIS.”
― Winston Churchill
So, what will it be? Green Beans or Corn?
