Aboulomania

Aboulomania: great indecision and an inability to, or difficulty in, making any kind of choice in a person's daily life

My Connection: While I do not have the clinical disorder of aboulomania, I am notorious among friends and family for my "decision exhaustion". This state typically sets in after a long day of teaching during which so many decisions were made from great to minimal importance and every level in between. Once the exhaustion sets in I am nearly incapable of making the smallest decisions. What to eat for dinner? What to watch on TV? Whether or not to walk the dog? Which Vocal story to read? I just can't.

My Acrostic Poem:

Another question and I’m here once more,

Back to a crossroads of crucial choices,

One where two roads diverge, as Frost would say.

Under a glow filtered through golden leaves,

Lurk the shadows cast by uncertainties.

Openness to the possibilities

Means exposing vulnerabilities

And there's no way to know where each path weaves,

Never a sign to point out the best way.

I sit and wait for discerning voices

As I ponder some, then ponder some more…

Author's Note: This piece was created for Penny Fuller's The A-Z of Unusual Words Challenge. Check out the details in the story linked below.