You allow this bus to pass by and wait for the next bus. Another bus arrives in a few minutes. It's less crowded than the previous one but you still can't get a seat. You decide to wait for the next one. The next bus has empty seats but looks old. You feel the journey may not be comfortable. So, you decide to wait for the next bus.
The next bus is overcrowded. You wish you had taken the first bus, the one that came after that or the one that came after that... But you have allowed them to pass by and there is no way you can board those buses.
Now, you can either board this bus or wait for then next one. But there is a danger of the waiting become longer and your missing the deadline to reach your destination. You may end up frustrated cursing yourself for having missed the buses, a decision, which in retrospect appear to be acceptable choices!
All of us undergo a similar experience in life. We get opportunities and we let them pass by hoping that a better opportunity will present itself soon enough. But after a while we find either we don't get another good opportunity at all or that the ones we get are less attractive than the ones we chose to give a miss.
On the other hand, you grab an early opportunity only to realize that if you had waited a little longer, you would have got a better opportunity.
The opportunity may relate to many things about life from the trivial to the most important. It may range from buying clothes to buying a house, from choosing a menu in a restaurant to choosing a career, dating to deciding on your marriage and so on.
So, what is the right thing to do? Should you jump at the first opportunity or wait for a better one?
You will have to wait for my next post to find an answer but don't take this as a clue that I'm going to recommend waiting over jumping!.
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