June 9, 2008

  • Can I get a scoop of life please?

    Whenever I go for ice cream, I often find myself having an exhausting time picking one from the 20+ flavors available. Tonight, we went to Cold Stone Creamery. The great thing about Cold Stone, unlike any other typical ice cream places, is that you can get whatever you want here. They have every flavor and every mix-in you can imagine. Can’t choose between Banana, Strawberry or Vanilla?  No worries, you can have all three! (I’m not sure how tasty that would be, but you get my drift…) Just like the many different flavors and mixtures and creations that Cold Stone Creamery offers, life often presents you with so many choices as well. However, the only difference is that with ice cream, if you don’t like the flavor (s) you’ve chosen, you can always come back to try a different flavor later, where as with life, making a choice excludes and shuts off all other options.

    Life with choices is wonderful. A lot of us are very blessed to have many choices in life. We don’t know what it’s like to suffer from having no choices. To live life without choices is terrible, but what about life with too many choices?

    Personally, I think having too many options is quite paralyzing and exhausting. What career to go into after college? Where you’re going to live? To move across the country or stay in your home town? When you have so many things to choose from, you don’t know which choice is the best. You stress about it and worry that you’ll make the wrong decision. When you have so many options, you feel the pressure to make the very best choice.

    What if you decide on something and then something better comes along? What if you marry the wrong man, and then the right one shows up? There are so many uncertainties, and you never know whether there’s some other option that’s better. So many choices. So many headaches. But I guess that’s what makes life interesting. It’s full of uncertainties and mysteries. Bad decision or good decision? Only time will tell, and in the meantime, I will continue to indulge my ice cream dreams at Cold Stone, a place where I can be greedy and get to have everything I want at once.

    Good night and good luck