moon light chaser

Last week, my mom said she wanted to abandoned the plan to wait for the social visit pass she applied because she desperately wanted to go back to Yangon. What I said was that's up to her and if she was happy with her decision, she could go back. That was an incorrect decision. Because she waited for a few days more on my younger sister's advice and the visit pass was approved.

Sometimes we need to think rationally. Some decision made based on emotions are sometimes illogical, irrational and irrelevant. Sometimes our decisions can be biased and if we make decisions under stressful situations, we tend to think about the immediate future in this situations. If a person cannot make the decision in this emotional roller-coaster situation, what we need to do is to persuade him/her to reach to the rational solution rather than fueling the emotional orient solution which can be gone wrong. Emotion play apart in our decision making but the goal in critical thinking is to acknowledge and understand the emotions that may influence our decision making, so we can determine when and where to let them become part of the decision-making process.