The importance of decision-making in life

Decision-making is like a muscle, if left unused, it atrophies and eventually withers away.
Over-protective environments undermine this ability, and we feel the full brunt of its consequences once we decide to start walking our own path, away from the sheltered cocoon.
We start depending on friends, acquaintances or family members, when faced with minor dilemmas in our lives. 

Later we would depend on our spouses, coworkers or neighbors to handle even the most innocuous of situations.
We would panic and feel lost when nobody is around to point us to the right direction.
The decisions we take in our lives are small at first, they don't have a big impact.
These decisions could be about the shoes we want to buy, the color of the pencil we would use in a drawing or the flavor of the cake we want to order.
With time, our decision-making muscle gets stronger through use.

As a result, we don't feel the burden when taking life altering decisions, since the habit of forming opinions and acting on them is well entrenched in our psyche.

Fear starts to step down, overwhelmed but a brain that picks paths regardless of how we feel.

Faith in our own choices starts to rise as a result.

Faith coupled with our ability to decide and act turns us into a sound, solid rock that our family and friends would turn to when challenges rear their head in their life.
The main point is making decisions and acting on them. These decisions may be good or bad, and their results may be certain or shaky. 

We can always fix and adjust the consequences of a wrong decision, learn from it, and move on. 

Barring that, we would turn into a lifeless, stagnant body of water, infested with bacteria and reeking of a foul odor.

Who wants to be in the vicinity of a festering watercourse?