Choices?

Generation Y is what they call us. Generation Y is blessed they say, with technology, thousands of career options, travel, money and the likes. However I put to you this question, are choices a good thing? My nana and me often talk about the ‘good old days’ that’s her good old days I should mention, and I often walk away thinking how exciting life must have been for her.

She was free to do as she pleased, sure she didn’t have the latest iphone and new technology updates every two days however she wasn’t confused by everything available to her. In her day, you picked a career out of the 5 or 10 open to you and that was it. You didn’t need to finish school, you needed to make money and support your family.

This may seem completely ridiculous to some of you who believe that we have it a lot easier now with information at our finger tips. But what if this isn’t always a good thing. We are constantly being updated, reinvented, renovated… when do we have time to just stop and enjoy life. Are we simply to preoccupied with existing and surviving day to day or are we truly living life?

If we could live on the bare minimum, the absolute core necessities, what would life be like? Would it be easier? Simpler? Happier? I love life contrary to the pessimism in this post, I just wonder are we living it to its full potential? The choices we are offered today often make us second guess, which one is better…are we choosing the best option, is this the safest option. Why are we so worried that there is something else better out there?

My conclusion is that too many choices are unhelpful. I don’t want to have to choose one apple out of the 30 available to me, I just want to know which is the best, juiciest one that at the end of the day I am going to enjoy. I believe we need to slow down, take a moment and enjoy the present.

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