Experts on Other People's Choices

We are such experts to so little consequence in the lives of one another, so sure we are right about what others should do, while in our own lives -- the place where choices do exist -- we are all muddled and immobilized, at a loss to do the simplest things.  We avoid and pretend, waiting for the miracle while urging others to do what is available and to be decisive in doing so.  We are all reason and logic where friends or clients are the focus, but it does not cross over into the circle where we stand.