Any Decision Eliminates Others

Because Our-Lives-Are-Brief, we have to [[ decide what is important to you ]] We can’t do everything, so what we chose to eliminates any other choice we might make.

Every decision to use a portion of time on anything represents the sacrifice of all the other ways in which you could have spent that time, but didn’t – and to willingly make that sacrifice is to take a stand, without reservation, on what matters most to you. Four-Thousand-Weeks-by-Oliver-Burkeman-2021

Every choice you make, every time you prioritize one thing over another, there are corresponding sacrifices you make. Opportunity cost, certainly. But sometimes the trade-offs are financial, emotional, or relational. Whether you are willing to address those trade-offs explicitly or not is beside the point. They exist. [[ Growing gills ]]