Pensive

Sunday October 30, 2005 - 8:45PM EDT

There are times when thinking is cut short or seemingly cannot be done. Those times are very few and far between. Like certain plays on a football field or if you are on the bomb squad. In those cases preperation is what you need. In those very rare cases when no preperation helps and there is not time to think your decision almost becomes an afterthought. Something will be decided whether you like it or not. What you pick is simply a matter of happenstance. Why am I talking about this? Because more times than not I see people act without thought (or study). In situations in which you can think and you do have time. Yet the prevailing perception sometimes is that in these situations you don't have time to think or you can't prepare. What a load of happy horseshit. Only in the rarest of cases you find yourself unprepared and no time to think. Usually if you are unprepared it is because you didn't take time to prepare not because of the situation. I just keep seeing these stories and situations where thought is absent. It's pathetic.