Options

I kind of just remembered this that I wanted to say some time ago but I totally forgot about it over time. So here goes. This is about options.

You know, many of a times we feel confined and bounded by our choices, that we have so many limited choices and options, for example, forced to take education and exams , homework and all that.

But actually, according to this theory that I’m going to say, having fewer options, or no options at all is the best situation. Why do I say that?

Let’s say for example, you have two choices for courses.

So let’s say you chose course A. Then while taking the course, you start to get bored of it and you start thinking "What if I had taken course B instead?”  And as times goes by, the merits of course A will get smaller while the regret of not taking course B gets more and more.

Similarly, let’s say you have 10 courses to choose from.

If you’ve chosen one of it based on what you liked the best. Over time, you will start to wonder, what if I had taken one of the other 9 courses? And the good points of the course you’ve taken keeps getting lesser and lesser, yet the regret of not taking another course has multiplied by 9 times.

So you see, in our whole lives we’ve been made to make choices. Especially for us poly students. Who have to choose from over 100 over courses. You know, it’s not really that rare for some people to just feel depressed over such things.

As well as feeling depressed for making certain choices in your life. But then again, that’s life, there’s nothing much that you can do about it.

So you see, according to that, it’s really much better to have just one option. At least you know you have to take that option no matter what. And no matter how much you regret taking that option, you’ll know that that’s the only one you have, and you have no choice but to take it.

Though there’s another way of looking at this. I’ll be talking about that in my next post.