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Make a decision
Take required action
Do it now
-安天美
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Most of us know the strange comfort of indecision. We've made homes there, furnished them with maybes, decorated the walls with what-ifs. The first line strips away this elaborate architecture of delay. It doesn't hesitate or waver - it simply states what we already know. “Make a decision”. Any decision. The relief comes not in making the right choice, but in making one at all.
Here's something we rarely admit: most life-changing actions look remarkably ordinary in the moment. "Take required action" isn't about grand gestures or dramatic moves. It's about showing up. Sending the email. Making the call. Starting the conversation. Filing the papers. The word "required" carries a peculiar honesty - these aren't the actions we dream about, they're the ones we need to take. They're the unglamorous steps that, somehow, lead to everything that matters.
"Do it now" feels almost rude in its directness. Good. We've had enough polite suggestions about timing and readiness. Now isn't a suggestion or a schedule - it's the only real time we have. Everything else is storytelling. The immediacy of "now" isn't about rushing - it's about recognizing that life happens in real time, not in the carefully edited versions we play in our heads.
Most tales celebrate the outcome, the after, the achievement. This poem lives in the before - in the moment of turning thought into motion. It's about the Monday morning decision, not the Friday evening victory. It's about the first step, not the finish line.
There's a strange kind of hope in the poem's plainness. It suggests that changing our lives isn't about inspiration or perfect timing. It's about this moment, this decision, this action. Then the next one. And the next. We don't need to write epics. We just need to begin.
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To not decide
Is a decision
Choose to act
-安天美
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Confident people make decisions quickly.
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