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How to Make a Decision For The Right Reasons
Hint: Don’t base it on not knowing what to do next
When I returned to South Korea for a second year of teaching English, I did it for the wrong reasons.
There were some good reasons, too — but my choice ultimately boiled down to this:
I didn’t know what else to do.
After finishing my first year-long teaching contract, I did some travelling in Korea, Hong Kong, and Macau for about a month. Then I headed back to Canada to spend the holidays with friends and family.
Before long, though, it came time to make the dreaded decision:
Was I going back for round two or not?
I thought long and hard about this, even making a pros and cons list and eventually annoying my family with the same question over and over again:
“What do you think I should do?”
Though they tried, they couldn’t help me.
Of course they couldn’t help me. This was a very personal decision — one that only I could make.
I took it so seriously, in fact, that it started to eat me alive. Soon my mind became addicted to this dilemma, and I couldn’t seem to think about anything else. My head and my heart both made very strong…
