Consider

I suffer from this strange condition - I call it 'choice paralysis' and I wonder/assume at the same time as to how many others among us suffer from something similar. I log into my OTT services and spend half the time of a feature presentation (no exaggeration here) to find the feature presentation I wish to watch, and more often than not, my free time is up and I abandon the thought of watching. Same goes with most other recreational things I do.

For instance I browse through hundreds of pictures to find that one pic that would be a perfect tag along to my blog post and I spend more time than I allocate to blog. On a digress, come to think, why is the picture even necessary right? - Oh may be because we have increasingly become a visual species. We need a pic in tow for everything we speak or say (remembering how I used to click pics of my dish to share it on my iMessage along with the conversation about what's cooking in the kitchen.

Digress over, and back to the condition I suffer from. So during my childhood in the 80s - we used to cluelessly wait for that one feature film on Saturdays, clamor around our modest TVs and consume it with great enthusiasm. Everything followed the circadian rhythm, including the TV sets wherein programs bid adieu no later than 11pm. And then as I progressed into my teens, the channels, the choices, the 24x7x365s made their advent. Do I recollect spending 30 mts choosing a book to read? No. The local library had a shelf of books and I used to grab the one that I didn't read yet and finding that one was a gratification in itself!

When I sit to blog, I have this influx of topics that hit me and I end up aborting the idea of blogging altogether before I choose one. It is a great deal of time drain, come to think of it and then I endlessly ponder about how I do not have time to do the things I love. So what is it that has gotten the likes of me into this condition? Is it the abundance of everything we have right here at our finger tips? Was life simpler and more enjoyable when moderation was the name of the game? Did we collectively shift the energy of the planet into an over consumption mode be it the things we use or the things we get to do?? I can't help but wonder about the rhetorical question. And what's the effect of all this on the quality of our life?

Today I chose the picture before doing my first scroll on the virtual album. Today I typed a title on the top of my head and got to writing without trying to make it some sort of a deep hitting masterpiece. Today I blogged in record time. Today I am trying to find prompt cures to the problems I seem to understand and ponder about.

And see? -  it isn't as hard as I thought it would be.

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