Decision: 1 a: the act or process of decidingb: a determination arrived at after consideration
So many people like to use this word, I have a guilty pleasure of reading fmylife.com as well as several other sites similar to this while bored. People bitch and moan about the use of PROCEEDED TO, and I don't get that, I understand that it's not common, I some have used it wrong, but the one that bugs me is when people say they decided to do something, but it's not really a decision just something they do. A decision is choosing between TWO OR MORE options, or weighing a choice, usually a BIG choice. And you get, especially on fmylife.com, "I decided to make pancakes" "I decided to yell out (fill in the blank)" These are things that aren't really decisions. Deciding what to eat may be a decision, but ONLY if you thought about something else, not just "oh I felt like having pancakes, so I made them" That isn't a decision, if you never thought of anything else to eat at that moment you DIDN'T decide on anything, you simply DID! I also think that decision are usually bigger than what to eat, because even if you did have to pick between two things, was it really that big of a deal. To me, a decision is a choice that you actually weighed and debated on, not just picked between. I know this is probably just me, I have tried to explain this to people in my life and they kind of look at me blankly, and while they understand what I mean they don't understand why it bugs me, just like I don't understand why proceeded to bugs others so much. I actually think now I'm going to start writing about all the little things like this that bug me, just to get them out and see if I am the only one that it bugs. lol.
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