The Fleetingness of Decision-Making The Fleetingness of Decision-Making Among the usual – yet effective – time-leap and changes in history themes depicted in “Making History” stands a more realistic concept referring to the fleetingness of decision-making and its consequences. In this Alternate History work, Stephen Fry develops the intricate conception of choices and how they can influence one's fate, how any and every alternative irremediably makes our fate divaricate, without any turning back possible. In this novel, the protagonist has the possibility to prevent Hitler's birth – only to observe that history did not unfold for the better. We discover how the disappearance of a single individual can influence centuries of history. One might not believe that our decisions have a great deal of influence, but they do, however vaunting it might sound. Otherwise, it would imply that history is immovable. Ironically enough, those important choices guiding our paths have to be taken in sometimes less than a second – with the possible consequences we are now aware of. This fleetingness of choices and the incurable consequences they have result in a detonating feeling of responsibility one can feel for the world's present-day condition.