40. Decision Making

So when I make decisions, I do not really have a set process in which I follow through each time. If it is a super important decision, I will take a longer amount of time to think about it than if it were a mediocre decision and not as important. Sometimes I do not necessarily make the best decision but the one that I like better. For example, I have been wanting to gauge my ears for a while. Not too big, but just a little. My mom however, would never allow me to do so. I had the first decision to make - listen to my mom, or go ahead and do it anyways. Well...I decided to do it anyways. So I went to Hot Topic and got the gauges I liked and took them home. Another decision to make- read up on the information about how to do it properly, or just do it myself without information. Again, I made what would be the worse of the two, and I decided to just try it before I read up on it. The sizes I got were 12's, which are a lot bigger than they look in your hands. I started to put them in and it hurt really bad. I figured this was normal, so I just kept going. When I got them both all the way in my ears were burning so bad so I had another decision - google it and see what was wrong, or just let them be and hope everything turned out alright. This time I made the better decision and looked it up. The website said that you shouldn't hardly feel any pain at all. That was the first hint that I did something wrong. Later on it said that if you haven't had your ears pierced for at least a year, then they wouldn't be ready to stretch. Well, I haven't had them pierced for a year, so I knew they weren't ready yet. So I tried to take out the gauges and my ears started bleeding, which was another thing the website said...if they bleed at all, they aren't ready. So my last decision - keep them in despite the issues, or take them out. Even though I really didn't want to, I had to take them out and I will have to wait a few more months.