Saturday, November 28, 2009
"The dilemma of choice" @ 2:33 AM
The problem with making decisions today is that we have one too many choices to choose from
. Variety is both a blessing and a curse, on one hand you get to choose to your heart's desire which means having the liberty in self expression, while on the other... well its just really hard to decide which to choose.
The trip to Low Yat today, for example, was a real eye opener to this thought. After not having been there in such a long time, I forgot just how insanely extensive the shelves displaying the many different optical mouse stretched for, that just for starters. How does one even begin to choose? The pros and cons of each quasi identical items only gets diluted in prominence as we eyed them by. And that is why it always takes so agonizingly long to buy an item.
Hence I came to realize that despite getting everything off my shopping list, my joy will only last for so long. Already there is contemplation about the external harddisk I bought, of whether I choose the right model, right size, right color etc. Because I knew that had I waited longer or checked more thoroughly would I have scored a better price. It was the same painful process when choosing earphones and keypad protectors. Actually it was worst because I even didn't know what makes a good set of earphones good. D: As it is with the world of technology today, it won't even be tomorrow when something bigger, better, cheaper and shinier is released in the market, and I'm going to want that instead. Gah.
There is no such thing as customer's satisfaction guaranteed anymore.
But the most incredulous thing I realized today is that I can't shake off the feeling that once something is considerably cheap (especially when compared to something else of similar value) it definitely means it is inferior in quality, although that really isn't always true, just like how the roadside pan mee is way better than Face2Face's pan mee. I have become a typically gullible consumer in a cruel money churning world of capitalism. D:
This also means that by the time I save up enough money to buy a Bugatti Veyron, thats the last thing I would want on earth already. Gah.
