A "BAD DECISION" is a lesson to be learned.

Have you ever thought about the importance bad decisions play in your life? I'm being deadly serious about this because whether you realize it or not, your decisions, especially the bad ones, play a very important role in our lives.

Although poor decisions play a critical role in people’s life, very few of us ever realize it or even think about it. Most people look to sweep their lousy decisions under the rug or pretend that they never even happened. They would soon forgive; which is good and an excellent way forward, and forget; which is very wrong and it’s a huge mistake.

Every decision we make is made with the best of our intensions. We voted MDP and President Nasheed, not merely to get rid of a thirty year old “benevolent” Dictatorship, but because we knew the promises Nasheed made, were possible and if happened they would enhance our lives.

Not recognizing a bad decision is to miss out on a huge opportunity for improvement. Every decision - whether it turns out to be good or bad - provides an outcome. Good outcomes result in good, positive feelings and there is certainly nothing wrong with that. The bad outcomes on the other hand provide us with something far more important.

We wanted a life without debts to the “Kanmathee fihaara” (neighborhood unit shop), we wanted the prices of all goods and services to be at “Aiy foraa fashala” (reachable limits of the average citizen).

Making hundreds of decisions throughout the day is a part of life. Most are small, seemingly insignificant decisions like what to have for lunch while others hold a great deal more importance. You've got to understand, everybody is the sum total of the decisions they make. The small decisions and the big ones; we are a reflection of our choices. What “we” as the Maldivian people are is the sum total of the decisions we as Maldivians make.

Let's look specifically at only the bad decisions we make. The truth of life is that learning how to live successfully in general would be impossible without the benefit of bad decisions. Making bad decisions provides us with experience that eventually leads us to live a successful life.

He pursued us wearing the graceful hat, He drew a picture of the “People’s Man” struggling for our rights. Whereas, his struggle was for his own benefit, an ancestral dream, a struggle at the cost of the Maldivian people. We now know that a once perceived savior may not necessarily be so, given a changed circumstance. Truth like oil will surface on the water.

He lied to us, he cheated us, and now he is playing with our sentiments. They are not Leaders, they are Misleaders. We made a bad decision, and it should provide us with the experience and eventually lead us to success by remembering not to repeat this decision.

So here is a bad decision we have made collectively, and it is effacing our lives, so many humble citizens who’s means of livelihood was the government job, were thrown out of job into a situation, where the prices of basic necessities such as water electricity and stable food were to be raised to pay for the new political appointees today totaling to over Rf. 9 million a month. The toll on electricity bill nationwide has bitten into the scanty income of the average family.

So now that you’ve made that inevitable bad decision, be easy on yourself. Understand that there was a good reason why you made the decisions you made so accept whatever the outcome. Most importantly you've got to learn your lessons. There is nothing wrong with making a bad decision and learning from it. On the other hand there is everything wrong with making a bad decision without taking a good lesson from the experience.

Do not let this bad decision go a waste.

Remember the child who learned heat by touching a hot stove? it was clearly a bad decision. But by so doing, the child learned a crucial lesson. That child learned that touching hot stoves was a bad decision, and that he should not do it ever again.

Of course, one should always look to make good decisions and I think that goes without say. Nobody ever wakes up in the morning eager to make poor decisions. But, as fallible human beings, it is absolutely impossible to avoid them.

Bad decisions make for good stories, agreed? something which appears to be a bad decision with a seemingly dire outcome today would be spoken and written about for many years to come. But the good decisions have little story value. You would sleep over it, only to forgotten when woken up to another day.