The Path

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In all decisions people have two make there are two opposing goals that can shift decisions wildly, efficiency and resiliency.

Resiliency is strength. To have the capacity to lose part of a thing while maintaining one’s output ensures that any surprises can be dealt with without stress for the future.

Efficiency is, well, efficient. If you can work at your best then you can get the job done without ‘wasting’ a single minute. If you are interrupted then you would lose output, since you would have parsed any and all ‘waste’ beforehand.

The choice of leaning towards efficiency or resiliency is one that fills my mind and decision making, with the temptation of increasing efficiency and trying to do more resting on my mind like that of Icarus, thinking he could rise but another foot, his wings won’t melt yet.

My path towards the program has certainly been resilient, since I didn’t know whether or not I wanted to take this path until some few years ago. I have worked for summers in a variety of places, with Barkerville, Silviculture, birch sap collection, and Camp cooking being replaced by the simple and repetitive work of merchandising at Costco.

Here my efficient mind is let loose to live free and benefit some blind greedy company, though I would rather phrase it as “I build connections and friendships, certainly I will help them if they need it”. 

I can also lie to myself that if I work hard at work then it can be an easy replacement for outside exercise, something I will have to remedy before fully joining the teaching profession. Alone it may not be a lie, but the practices it instills are not resilient and wouldn’t survive the shift into teaching.

This efficient minded brain also interferes with my artistic side, though I am improving … slowly.

This is but one concern that occupies my mind, though it is one of the larger concerns that underpins most decisions that are available to be made. It is something that is adjacent to my life, but hopefully shows some depths to my decision making.