The Problem With Having Choices

...is the necessity and the responsibility of choosing. Not that this is a particularly astute or original realization, but it goes a long way towards explaining the motivational problems of so many people of my generation. When something must be done -- not when it should optimally be done, but when there really is no acceptable alternative -- one does it. End of story. But, as I was discussing with a friend tonight, technology has hugely expanded our realm of choice. And when there are so many different ways of accomplishing something, and so many alternatives to doing it altogether, it takes so much more focus to actually pick the right activity and the right method and stick with it from moment to moment.

Having said that...I think I'll get off the computer and go to bed, even though I don't have to wake up at dawn to feed the chickens and milk the cows. ;-)