tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35477414.post4697362085309601035..comments2023-06-17T02:25:08.805-07:00Comments on the net self.: decisions, decisions.laura.ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13638164730513113228noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35477414.post-76456129570302496152008-03-28T07:23:00.000-07:002008-03-28T07:23:00.000-07:00First, thank you for your generous reply to my que...First, thank you for your generous reply to my questions about Mr. Lewis and his possible worlds. I'll have to read it four or five more times to say more . . .<BR/>Meanwhile, I was thinking about this posting and the question of regretting what you didn't do. It seems to me that such regret hinges on the conviction that there was another possible world and the door to it was open, but one did not walk through. I agree that this may seem clear only in retrospect, and one may (well) be mistaken in believing that the door was open.<BR/>How could an awareness of such possible future regrets help me in making some current decision? I think by pushing me to be more courageous, or in a sense more truthful, in choosing what, in fact, I want to choose. To quote Eudora Welty, "we are the breakers of our own hearts." But must it be so?<BR/>I believe, and I don't know if you'll find this sensible or deplorable, that choices which can be decided by a rational calculus are the easy ones. The real decisions in life cannot be made that way. Oh, I can hear your objections already to that sloppy use of the word "real." But I do think many critical, life-changing decisions are made on other than rational grounds and can only be made that way.<BR/>ever yours, LPLowryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11412226146277773482noreply@blogger.com