The Reasons Don’t Age Well

July 22

You can have your reasons and have them loudly: explaining to anyone and everyone precisely why you chose the course of action whether they’ll listen or not.

You can make your arguments, list your pros and cons, draw them on an impossibly large whiteboard, tallied and voted, for and against. 

You can assemble a committee for reason fact-finding, putting the best minds on the task for reasonable outcomes and risk assessment, forming new opinions and perspectives on your actions and creating a dossier of findings.

And even though everything is eventually lost to time, you might find that all of this and more is lost a little sooner—

That the reasons why fade into the background and the action itself stands, the choice, separate from all the things we tried to add to it. 

The reasons never age well. So at best, we can choose the actions and words that do. 

Choices that will stand on their own, without prologue or footnotes.

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