The Curse of the Broken Remote: Making Decisions

Today in class we discussed the thoughts that go into our decision making, especially when it comes to tough decisions such as Gogol's decision whether or not to ask Moushumi if she is happy with their marriage. I found that I myself am an outlier, in the fact that rarely do I consider anything but that which is going on at that exact moment. I do not know why but the thought of having a broken remote came to mind, rarely do I fast forward to consider what may happen as a result of my actions, and only on occasion do I consider my past actions. Instead I am stuck in the middle of the live action. My decisions are based really solely on what would happen at that moment. If I was in Gogol's position I doubt I would even consider how Moushumi may react, rather I would simply ask the question because I wanted to know the answer, then take the issue of her reaction head on as it occurs. In some ways I have come to really understand why Gogol seems to irritate me so much, he thinks too much for my interest. I want Gogol to have that same impulse I run off of, to decide not to go to sleep until 3 in the morning because I am more interested in doing something else right now, not thinking about the exhaustion. I will experience the following morning. Though to an extent I think a little impulse is a good thing. Maybe if Gogol was a little more spontaneous his life would get a bit more interesting, he may have actually gotten out there and met somebody instead of having Ashima hook him up and then getting trapped in a failing relationship, but I suppose we all can not strive to be like me. It seems I have finally explained my horrible tendency to procrastinate, as each day goes past I don't think, "oh gee, if I don't do some of this now it will all be left for the day before it is due" instead I think, "Hey! I can go have fun right now and do it tomorrow!" Perhaps I will change this, but probably not, I can not bring myself to care about decision making any longer.