We make decisions everyday, at almost every moment. What to eat, when and where to answer Nature's call. Sound like trivial decisions, but once the particular brain area involved in making decisions get destroyed, these patients can line up all the pros and cons to eat bread or to eat cereal, but can't actually make that TINY decision of what to eat. Simple? Not quite.

Then comes the bigger decisions. Why are these bigger? I guess I should touch upon the process of decision-making first.

Decision-making involves lining up the facts, with personal emotions. Emotions have their motivational aspects, an individual's emotional balance places implicit weights on particular fact/point, which would then emphasize certain salient pros or cons in the mental list. This process takes place so quickly, and people so often overlook it. My emotional balance is different from yours - what is important to me, isn't important to you. So why judge my decisions?

In any case, going back to BIGGER decisions. Bigger decisions, to me, occur when the weights are not obvious. Even after placing the weights on individual pros and cons, there is no discernible GO or NO GO. This is the big decision. Telling me reasons that "this concerns my FUTURE" doesn't make it big. The possible outcome would have already enter the list of pros and cons. Its your implicit weights that matter! Your emotions which guide your motivations, your reward or punishment system which point you to a decision, to guide you towards personal gratification and away from mortification.

Oh well. Listen to your heart. It has all the answers.