Options

It can be overwhelming to make the right/best choice with so many options to choose from. It’s like going to the grocery store and seeing an array of pasta noodles on the shelves. We can hastily pick up our go-to brand, or we can pick up something new. There are various factors to consider, such as the ingredients, cost, quantity (in the package), brand name, sell by date, etc.

The same goes with researching a product online that we want to buy, and deciding from which vendor offers the best price. We want to make the best choice, but even after making the purchase, the result is not always what we thought. For example, the item could be faulty, and it might wear out sooner than we thought. All that time and energy we had put into it couldn’t have foreseen the future, including how it would hold up overtime, and if it’s even durable.

With the vast array options to choose from, there’s always an unknown variable(s). The same could be said of books, movies, comics, etc., where there’s no guarantee that we will enjoy them or get value from the experience once we’ve finished the story/movie. As much as we’d like to think that we could make the best or perfect decision, it’s still a hypothetical, and it usually plays out better in our minds than in reality.