Tyranny of choice
“The daily art of living is the act of chiseling destiny through choice.” -Maria Popova
The life we do have is the sculpture of the choices you make, every choice difficult or easy, requires us to make a leap into the unknown.Life is an act of self-creation and we are all self-identified artists.
“One doesn’t arrive in words or in art by necessarily knowing where one is going, in every work of art something appears that previously doesn’t exist, and so, from what you know to what you don’t know.”- Ann Hamilton, Philosopher of forms.
There are abundance of possibilities-options- to choose from, and it exhausts the human mind, we make a simple distinction either this or that, and the desired outcome is not to be regretted
Nearly two centuries earlier Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard explored this concept of “double regret” in his masterpiece ‘Either / Or: A fragment of life.’
“If you marry, you will regret it; if you do not marry, you will also regret it; if you marry or if you do not marry, you will regret both; whether you marry or you do not marry, you will regret both…..”
Most of the time we don’t regret the choices we make, but the choices we don’t make.Since the possibility of the unmade choice is lost forever.
As a practicing stoic, choice I make is an opportunity to learn and grow.See ahead of the choice, escape the trap, see the endless possibilities.
