"99 Other Things"

"99 Other Things"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD 

Someone once asked me what I would do if someone held a gun to my head. And I said nothing. The person who asked me then said that there were 99 other things that I could have done in a situation like this. 99 other things.

What I did not tell him was that I had no information that I could act on. Why was this person holding a gun to my head? Do I know this person? Could I reason with them? Was I in the way of something?

Sometimes in our haste to say that there was something else we could have done there are things that we do not consider. We forget to remember that there are so many variables involved in any given scenario.

There might be 99 other things to do at any a given situation but it doesn't mean that any of them might be useful or even succeed. Especially if the person holding the gun has already pulled the trigger.