Well… if you can’t decide between them, they must be around equally appealing, right? Equally balanced pros and cons? So the choice must matter very little—you may as well flip a coin. The alternative is that the pros and cons aren’t equally balanced, in which case the decision should be simple. … I do think there’s something to be said for agonizing over important decisions, but only so long as the agonization process is currently going somewhere, not stuck.
I have a hard time applying this to those choices that I most associate with agony, either my own (break up with someone or not) or imagined (jump out of a burning building or stay; give up one child or the other).
I have a hard time applying this to those choices that I most associate with agony, either my own (break up with someone or not) or imagined (jump out of a burning building or stay; give up one child or the other).