Editorial Note: How Would You Ever Know?!

Once we are born, our life challenges start too and there is no escape from them. However it is funny how we sometimes really try to escape and figure out our way out of the challenges staring at us right in the eye in certain moments and stages of life. These challenges help us explore life in mysterious manners and grow up to be a mature and wise person. And all of us have experienced periods in which we have skipped a certain issue which has appeared to us in the form of a challenge. Really, how boring would life be without these so-called challenges which create a life full of exhilarations. Then again, we always think about those opportunities which have been lost and we have somehow gotten away with an issue. We keep on thinking about it, wondering what if we had chosen to take a different path. What would have happened if we had made another choice and how that decision would alter our life? However, perhaps that is the paradoxical point about the puzzle of life. We are always thinking, trying to be careful and wise to make the best possible decision and choice, but then again who can tell us if there really is a thing known as the “best choice” or in other words the “best decision” at all?! I mean, what might seem to be the best choice and decision for someone might be the worst decision and choice for another person regarding their position, status quo, mentality, purpose and their overall path.

This alone makes life a wonder; that there is absolutely no cliché to it and no precise formula for running the life granted to us all as a true and utter blessing; right from the beginning to its end. No two people go through life identically and each individual has his/her own subtle ways for making slight changes to how things are proceeding from time to time. I have often heard in many TV series and movies that “I wish there was a guideline for… in life!” This is most often said when a character is confused and feels lost amid a path in his/her life and needs direction.

By and large, we can always carry this question in our heads with us: how would my life, career, personality, to mention a few factors, change if I had made that decision at that time?! Either way, at each certain point in our life we have to make a solid decision, accept all its related responsibilities and go along with it; unless there comes a stage when we hesitate its reliability and try to figure out other ways. Yet; no matter what decision we make, we can’t make more than one decision for every single issue at one time and that’s how it works…

Sh. Ghandehari