The choice to choose

Our daily lives are filled with phrases which vary from what do I wear? To I have nothing to wear. What do I eat? To there is nothing good to eat. We have got stuck in the vicious circle of new options that we keep exploring and no matter what we choose we never feel satisfied.

When I was scrolling down my music library searching for the type of music I wanted to listen, I realized all these songs were existing in my playlist because I had chosen them from thousands and lakhs of other songs. Those clothes in our wardrobe that we chose, that pair of shoes that we never wore, the t-shirt that suddenly looks so dull, pretty dress that could never come out of paper bag, and endless various collections that we all have were at some point in time the result of the choice that we made and we were happy about. Yet, after some time the same thing doesn’t interest us as much. We ironically obsolete our own choice in fraction of a minute without considering the time we had invested in making these choices. We have started contradicting our own selves faster than ever.

Can we ever bring an end to the wish to choose? Or will we keep making a choice to fulfill our wishes and then redundant them ourselves? When and how would we achieve contentment? At one hand, we have people who don’t have a choice to choose and at the other hand we take a conscious decision to be the ones who get bored of choosing from their own choices.

It’s time we realize that more the merrier doesn’t apply to all aspects of life. There is a need to see life beyond the choices of materialistic things that have started defining us more than our true selves.

Manisha Dawar