Cav's Place

Sooner or later we all need to make choices that run a huge risk of causing terrible pain to ourselves. They are always preceded by confusion and panic. Also by lots of anger, at the world for making us choose and at ourselves for not being able to figure out what the good choice is. But, while sometimes the confusion, panic and anger linger on long after the choice is made, at other times a strange calm settles over us, sweeping all the negative feelings away… And I have to wonder, is that calm caused by the feeling that the choice was right, the hope that things will turn out well after all, or by the knowledge that it was wrong, the acceptance of the terrible pain that is to come?