Taking a drug that permanently damages your heart, lungs or even liver, often isn’t.
Dangerous sports need risk analysis, and failing to do that increases the chance of an irreversible result.
Having kids is not reversible - if you change your mind six months in, you don’t get the same outcomes for the rest of your life as if you had never had them in the first place. It’s not consequence-free, whatever route you take from there.
You might be ok with downsides and risks associated with a decision when you make, but it doesn’t mean the decision is reversible. Some decisions (“should I move my family to a foreign country?”), have greater consequences and less reversibility than others (“shall I have an extra slice of toast this morning?”).
I also want to stress something I wish I’d grasped when I was younger: when you’re 25 you get to experiment more with the big stuff than you do when you’re 35 or 45. And that time passes fast. At 45 you will not have the same degrees of consequence-free reversible decision making you had when you were 25.
But there are still decisions you make at 25 that will stick with you forever, no matter what. Choose your friends and lifestyle carefully.
I said that every decision is irreversible, not reversible. Every last one. No exceptions.
Some things can be reviewed and done again, but again, those retries are also irreversible.
Just that most choices we do, even though being irreversible, are of little consequence. Like, there's not much impact between eating fried chicken vs pizza, or deciding between 2 movies. But... How does one unwatch a movie, or uneat pizza? Simply put, we can't. Hence irreversible.
Note that decide's root is -cide ,or kill. To decide is to kill a certain future or class of futures. That's a very interesting, yet often used term without realizing its root is of death.
Taking a drug that permanently damages your heart, lungs or even liver, often isn’t.
Dangerous sports need risk analysis, and failing to do that increases the chance of an irreversible result.
Having kids is not reversible - if you change your mind six months in, you don’t get the same outcomes for the rest of your life as if you had never had them in the first place. It’s not consequence-free, whatever route you take from there.
You might be ok with downsides and risks associated with a decision when you make, but it doesn’t mean the decision is reversible. Some decisions (“should I move my family to a foreign country?”), have greater consequences and less reversibility than others (“shall I have an extra slice of toast this morning?”).
I also want to stress something I wish I’d grasped when I was younger: when you’re 25 you get to experiment more with the big stuff than you do when you’re 35 or 45. And that time passes fast. At 45 you will not have the same degrees of consequence-free reversible decision making you had when you were 25.
But there are still decisions you make at 25 that will stick with you forever, no matter what. Choose your friends and lifestyle carefully.