Sit around too long thinking about how to begin and you’ll consume all your provisions while your ship rots in the harbor.
— American football player Shawn Davis
The late American president Theodore Roosevelt once said, “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
True. But what can be said in most cases whenever there is a problem or concern is that people make decisions without really knowing whether what they have decided to do is right or wrong.
Still, what really matters is that we take action swiftly rather than procrastinate until things are too late. This is probably why, in the mind of the great Roman general Julius Caesar, it is the reverse in most men because he rejoices in committing himself.
Reality shows us that to us arrive each day a score of challenges, and we must say yes or no to decisions that will set off chains of consequences. Some of us deliberate on them, while others refuse the decision, which in itself may be considered a decision as well. Still, there is a fraction among us who leap giddily into the decision, setting their jaws and closing their eyes, which is the sort of decision of despair.
And going back to Caesar, he embraced decision as though he felt his mind to be operating only when it is interlocking itself with significant consequences. He actually shrank from no responsibility while heaping more and more upon his shoulders.
By the way, Caesar was murdered during the Ides of March, the month when we were struck by a crisis triggered by the conflict in the Middle East and the subsequent disruption of the global oil supply.
This is now the predicament. Unfortunately, our dear President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. failed to foresee this so he could have worked out preventive steps before we were caught with our pants down. The truth is that he should have seen this beforehand and promptly acted on it before or as soon as it happened.
Take the case of Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso in the country’s capital. Without batting an eye, he issued his directive to increase the subsidy for the “libreng sakay” participants as a means of offsetting the fuel price hike.
Well done, and swiftly made to earn praises from the public.
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