Too many ChOicEs?

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 It has been quite some time since I have reverted back to this site to put my thoughts out. It is just that phase, just past quarter-life crises to be chic. Or is it? Not really. Choices. I did write a lot about this previously but what got me thinking was, are too many choices good or bad? To write out a post, my mind had to compete with all the other choices I had to pass the time. Netflix, a LOT of Youtube, games, books, and even CandyCrush. If my only choice was to write, this site would have been spammed with content like it did a few years ago. 

How would life actually be, if every corner of it had only one road to take? Exciting? Boring? Easy? We are at a point in an age where we are inundated with choices everywhere we look. Everywhere we walk in, we have like a hundred different choices to make. There were many references to the choices of cereals in America before I had been there, and I never thought it was not such a huge thing to worry about. I was always used to just two kinds of cereals, Chocos and Corn Flakes. And when I had the choice of complete aisles, I used to spend at least 5 mins walking up and down the aisle to select a box of cereal. And this happens with everything.  

I was a fan and an avid user of LG phones, and now that they have moved away from the mobile phone business, I was confused about what the next phone should be. Hours and hours of reviews, eagerly waiting for launches and looking at what was that one phone that stood out. I really envy Apple fans, cause it is never a hard decision for them to choose a phone. Maybe that is how Apple creates its products with this in mind. 

I really wish that for a few years, we are limited in choices. If you want ice cream, all you get is vanilla and chocolate. This might sound a lot like a socialistic view of the world, but I feel this would actually reduce the time we spend making choices for even the trivial things in life. Like just getting good nutrition at the start of the day. I just want to be free of the anxious moments of making the right choices and not the ones I regret immediately after (or after they were delivered). So, I wanted a cable for my iPad and turns out there are 100 choices in that too, and I ended up with the one I never really wanted. I just wanted to replace my OH SO BROKEN wire (Apple, a premium brand deserves, braided cables, right?).


- Sushant Thotakura

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  1. AnonymousAugust 8, 2022 at 9:31 AM

    In my opinion, if the choices are already made for us, we wouldn’t be excited. Neither the consumers nor the producers of those choices. It will be a bland combination of ‘want’ and ‘suffice’- which I think will slowly die of boredom and repetition. There is no one great thing (or just a couple of things) that could quench the need of complex and diverse humanity.

    Sure, it would be a relief if best things are chosen for us according to our need/ want. But how could someone, who doesn’t know the need of others choose something? Whom will that person go to for their choices?

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