Decisions are very difficult.

I'm not talking about the decisions you make every day- ice cream or chocolate for dinner? Well, that one's easy. Both!

The hardest decisions are the ones that involve your children. You so desperately want to do the best for them. You want so badly to make the right choice. And you wish that somehow, you had the ability to see into the future- just for this one thing. You want to make the right decision because you are responsible for your child's happiness. Rightly or wrongly, you place their entire future on this one decision.

Everybody wants their children to be happy.

And you can't help but think of the butterfly effect- every choice, no matter how seemingly insignificant, changes the course of their future. Every choice impacts on their future happiness.

Before you become a parent you understand how terrible, how difficult it is to decide. But the absolute enormity of how your world has changed becomes apparent when that little helpless human being is placed in your arms for the first time. And then, you truly KNOW what it's like to have full, unending responsibility for this creature.

And as time goes on, and your children grow up at the speed of light, the decisions get harder and more complex. And with every choice that needs to be made, the worry about your children and their future grows too.