“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”

‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat.

‘I don’t much care where -‘ said Alice.

‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the Cat.

‘- so long as I get SOMEWHERE,’ Alice added as an explanation.

‘Oh, you’re sure to do that,’ said the Cat, ‘if you only walk long enough.” –

Lewis Carroll, in Alice In Wonderland

Sometimes, difficult decisions need to be made.  Sometimes people hold up these decisions as life threatening and we dare not make a mistake nor must we by any chance make any decision they feel the consensus of their own perspective agrees on.  The problem though is one also pointed out by the Cheshire Cat and so often forgotten in an increasingly polarized nation and world.  Sometimes our paradigms are so startling different that it seems someone has made a crazy decision.  The problem is that the person making this sort of decision may well feel his or her opposition has let go of reality for madness.

I am not sure of the right disposition in such matters.  But, I do believe that we give it our best and let it go from there.  I also believe that second guessing leaders all of the time when there is no substantial wrong done is a recipe for disaster as a nation, corporation and even in a family.  It seems best to agree on a goal.  Allow for course action but go with complete gusto.