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<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Brandon-Blogs</title><link href="https://brandon-blogs.neocities.org/" rel="alternate"/><link href="https://brandon-blogs.neocities.org/feeds/all.atom.xml" rel="self"/><id>https://brandon-blogs.neocities.org/</id><updated>2026-10-23T15:12:00+02:00</updated><entry><title>My antipathy for decision making</title><link href="https://brandon-blogs.neocities.org/hate-for-making-decision.html" rel="alternate"/><published>2026-10-23T15:12:00+02:00</published><updated>2026-10-23T15:12:00+02:00</updated><author><name>Brandon Chumo</name></author><id>tag:brandon-blogs.neocities.org,2026-10-23:/hate-for-making-decision.html</id><summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;I hate making decisions, I am trying to understand why,&lt;/p&gt;</summary><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;I've been this way ever since :sob:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;A little boy wants something.&lt;/h1&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;So was a wee lad, I had this habbit; I don't know how it came about but; Whenever I wanted something,&lt;br&gt;
I'd take somebody else's hand and use that to take what I wanted. I'd use my father's hand or whoever's&lt;br&gt;
hand I'd reach. I forgot that concept and was only reminded of it by my mother some few years ago.&lt;br&gt;
Naturally I brushed it off, but recently I discovered that I didn't actually grow out of it,&lt;br&gt;
I actually did quite the oposite, I grew into it, or rather perfected the art&lt;br&gt;
you see; nowadays when I want something or when I want to do something I tell it to someone near me.&lt;br&gt;
Mostly it's my brother, or I ask someone's opinion on what I'm going to do.&lt;br&gt;
Then I do the thing, or when I am about to do something, I don't just do it, no&lt;br&gt;
I have to convince myself that it's actually worthwhile&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;of course maybe that's because I'm introverted but whatever  &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h2&gt;But really, how did I come to be this way.&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Introverted.&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You see I came to realise recently that I am extremely introverted. What does this have to do with &lt;br&gt;
anything I hear you ask; Well it has something to do with everything really. As an extremely&lt;br&gt;
introverted being, I am very socially anxious. I don't like doing things that'll make me look&lt;br&gt;
stupid or stand out. I also love excuses, like I said earlier, I like doing justified things.&lt;br&gt;
If what I did was not justified then I'll feel terrible, I'll feel like I just wasted time.&lt;br&gt;
The other connected reason is, because I am a heavy overthinker; I'll think that maybe I just &lt;br&gt;
made the worst decision of my life, maybe there was a better way of doing it. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;African family&lt;/h1&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Now don't get me wrong, I am not saying that, all African children hate making decisions; No&lt;br&gt;
I don't know, maybe, I could be wrong, dammit my overthinker is kicking in. But what I mean is&lt;br&gt;
that; we don't really make much decisions. Mostly because all of it is made for you, to be honest&lt;br&gt;
I have never really had a problem with it, well most of the time, like 20% of the time.&lt;br&gt;
Sometimes of course it irks me; like the time they sent me to this school in the middle of&lt;br&gt;
after tricking me into believing that they actually sending me into another one, the one I actually&lt;br&gt;
wanted. Also them picking the clothes I'd wear when we went to church, or them judging my selection,&lt;br&gt;
I mean how do you expect me to know how to do that if I don't get the chance to do that mom ?&lt;br&gt;
And don't even get me started on the &lt;em&gt;romantic intrest&lt;/em&gt; the standards are absurd, like mom I get it&lt;br&gt;
you hate Kikuyu's. &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Also I never had a girl like the good boy I was so don't ask me about my love life when I was still&lt;br&gt;
young. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Strict parents.&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Also my parents are very religious, so naturally they were very strict.&lt;br&gt;
They ehem &lt;em&gt;criticize&lt;/em&gt; whatever stupid thing we did, I don't have anything against them for this&lt;br&gt;
but really, that made me very not confident in whatever decisions I would ever go to make,&lt;br&gt;
even something as simple as deciding the type of notebook to buy. I only did this to get her&lt;br&gt;
approval, and some could argue that I am still doing the same.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Advantages to this.&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Of course not having confidence in decesion making comes with a lot of disadvantages,&lt;br&gt;
but since I've stuck to it for this long. There could be some things that made me stay.  &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The first of it being a piece of mind; now this might sound like I'm coping&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;because I am&lt;/em&gt; but when you do something especially as an introverted guy&lt;br&gt;
and get done with it knowing that it was justified, the peace just hits different.&lt;br&gt;
Of course in the long run you're going to snap out of the bubble, and you're going&lt;br&gt;
to feel lost kinda like what I'm experiencing now, but enjoy it while it last I guess.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The second is that I'm very good at following instructions, I have a clean record in school&lt;br&gt;
which I don't quite know how to feel about, but well that is that. I won't go any deeper.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The last one, the list wasn't that long bruh, is I am a very good errand boy,&lt;br&gt;
that's why I am my mom's favourite. &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h1&gt;Now the disadvantages.&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I won't list a lot of them, well coz my hands are burning now out of all the typing I just did.
I'm just a baby. &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;I am very hackable, as long as someone is logical I end up doing what they tell me, same reason&lt;br&gt;
I am about to learn x64 Assembly, &lt;em&gt;simply because some guy online said all programmers should&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I also panic when someone is not explicit about what they asked me to do. Also the reason why I&lt;br&gt;
love computers, and another reason I am about to love Assembly, like I need you to be painfully explicit,&lt;br&gt;
even about what I should do after doing that which you just decided for me. &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;I am a joy to work with &lt;em&gt;tee-hee&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><category term="thoughts"/><category term="blog"/></entry><entry><title>My First Review</title><link href="https://brandon-blogs.neocities.org/my-first-review.html" rel="alternate"/><published>2010-12-03T10:20:00+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-03T10:20:00+01:00</updated><author><name>Brandon Chumo</name></author><id>tag:brandon-blogs.neocities.org,2010-12-03:/my-first-review.html</id><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Following is a review of my favorite mechanical keyboard.&lt;/p&gt;</content><category term="Review"/></entry></feed>