The Choices We Have

I was watching a Hindi movie the other day “Chasme Badhur”, I think set in the 70’s. Life was so simple, not too much money, opulence or choices. That’s when I realized, the root of most of our problems these days—choices, we have too many choices. It wasn’t this way 2 decades ago, even when we were kids, I mean u had fewer choices, for example, when u had to buy a cycle, there were maybe 2 at the most 3 brands out there. But now, it's just numerous, as in the case of motorcycles, cars, refrigerators, u name it.

Maybe we ought to go back to dictatorships, where the way they had it was (this friend from an ex-communist country once told me), one day cycles would come into the market and you heard announcements, so people who wanted cycles ran out and got them. Similarly for some other luxury items in those days, for example, cheese (yes, can u believe it), she used to tell me when she was a kid, maybe in the early 70’s there was just one variety of cheese, butter and all that.