Relevance Post: Decision Making

This is a little late, seeing as we talked about this a little bit last Tuesday, I believe. But, I wanted to make one of my relevance posts about decisions Tolkien made in his books (or his character's decisions) vs. the decisions we make in our everyday lives. It was really interesting to break down the characters and their choices, and how they came into play with the rest of the text. Trusting someone is a huge decision to make, seeing as it could affect your well-being. The thing about decisions is that for the most part, they're irreversible. Once they've been made, we can't truly take them back. In a book, the reader gets to see how the decisions play out for the characters. In real life, we can't really do that. This has made me realize that it's actually like that for the characters as well. We may know the outcome of their decisions because we are familiar with the story, but they don't know. Knowing this, it gives me a weird confidence in my own decision making, to understand that everything doesn't turn out perfect, and that it is possible to make the wrong decision, but everything has a purpose, and in the end, it's going to turn out exactly how it's supposed to. We can't change certain things, and I'm learning to live with that.