"There is no such thing called choice. It is just an illusion.... You have already made the choice. You only have to understand why you made it in the first place" .
--Told to Neo in "Matrix Reloaded"
I am a confused person from a few days. I have been asked to make a choice. Now this gives me the shivers. For what if the choice I make is not correct??The consequences of a wrong choice can be very bad. So whenever I have to make a choice I take a lot of time, with decisions changing faster than a pendulum. This has been the case with almost all my decisions or rather decisons involving choice (I think almost all do).
The latest case is for choosing electives for my second sem. Well all the electives are equally good, but I have to select only two. What stream do I choose? Do I go into a particular stream or become a "Jack of all trades" ? Do I go for subjects that have research potential or go for ones that are good from job point of view?
Okay finally I decided on five. The concern now is what will happen if I do not get the ones that I wanted. Will the ones I get be good enough .Or will they be "orthogonal" to each other as described one of our TAs. Well only time will tell.
At the time of writing this, I had submitted my choice of electives. Now just wait and watch. Talking about the first line in this post, have I already made my choice? And this wholw process is just an illusion? Are my electives already predestined? I do not know.
PS: By the way, I am already thinking of changing my electives.... :-)
