So Many Choices!!!

Sometimes, having options can be crippling! Especially when you have to make a choice from a variety that is laid out before you. Having to pick one out of thousands of others is hard, and the journey to actually making a choice can be as arduous as anything, to the point that by the time you actually get there, you can no longer enjoy what you wanted to choose anyway. It’s crazy.

But yeah, this is something that many of us can relate to on a deep level. We believe that life would be so much easier if we didn’t have to make decisions, and everything were rigid and set for us. If things were either black or white, with clear consequences for each action, it would make decision-making so much easier. But it isn’t, and we’re stuck with the never-ending worry of what could have been if we had only made a different choice.

This weekend, to unwind and just chill, I decided to watch Netflix on my TV. I didn’t have a movie in mind going in because I had already seen most of the new titles that had been released. I still wanted something new, which meant I had to give a new show a chance. And honestly, I didn’t have a problem with it until I started scrolling through the Netflix library. There were just so many titles that I didn’t know which one to pick.

Every movie I clicked on had a compelling synopsis or trailer, yet the next movie that Netflix suggested looked just as compelling, and the next, and the next. And just like that, I was pulled down this rabbit hole, scrolling through good movies and TV shows but not actually choosing any. And the more I scrolled, the more my choices changed. From wanting to watch a series, I switched to movies, then Kdrama, then Nollywood, on and on it went.

And just like that, I spent more than an hour just browsing through the library and not watching anything. By the time I finally saw a movie that spoke to my soul, it was too late; I had something else to do, so I turned off the TV. And that was how that session ended for me.

Now, I’m not saying that having lots of choices is bad, I’m just saying that we should develop a mindset of being satisfied with the choices we’ve made without constantly worrying about the ones that we didn’t. When we choose something, we stick with it and do not bother ourselves about what could have been had we made a different choice. Because the more we focus on the choices that we didn’t make or the decisions that we didn’t take, the less likely we’ll be able to enjoy the dividends of the ones we did take. So, in a way, we’d simply be sabotaging our own happiness and satisfaction.

We really can do better. Let’s learn some satisfaction. That is very important!