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Too Many Choices!
When every option is available to us, we don’t actually have freedom; we tend to shut down. I experienced what sociologists call choice overload (or paralysis) and decision fatigue. If you’ve ever tried to pick out a paint color for a wall, stood in your closet full of clothes with “nothing to wear,” or found yourself trying to find the right word at the end of the day but your head is muddled from the thousands of decisions you’ve already sifted through, you know this doesn’t feel like freedom.
Like too many condiments to choose from, we don’t need more choices to live the good life. We probably need less. We need instructions, a guide, and appropriately placed guardrails to show us the way forward.
The American grocery store—along with images of success like “climbing ladders”—showed me how I’d made the good life a cocktail of endless personal choice, ambition, and hurry. I’d shaken them all up and added Jesus as a cherry on top. The answer to this overwhelm wasn’t that I simply needed a change of circumstances (like another brand of condiment) to make me happy.
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