Pro-Choice or No Choice?

With over one hundred stations available on the radio, I spend more time listening to the comedy stations than the music stations. It’s similar to the grocery store where there’s a wall of cereal options—and we choose corn flakes. Consider the customer who chooses vanilla at the ice cream store, ignoring the other thirty exotic flavors.

A magazine survey reported that the majority of people (36%) only want around ten TV channels, and 22% want five or fewer. So why are we drowning in hundreds of choices?  We didn’t ask for them. Companies offer them. Here’s what happens with too many choices:

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If two choices confuse us, imagine what hundreds will do. We hate confusion! So we take short-cuts by eliminating options and focusing on the necessary few. That’s fine for radio stations, cereal, and ice cream, but not for important decisions.

Graduates, life-changers, seekers, we owe it to ourselves to thoroughly explore decisions that matter. Rather than blindly following the advice of family or friends, dig in to find the answers that matter. What decision do you pledge to give careful consideration?            

Facing The Past

Last week I saw a TV show that I hadn’t seen in years. You could tell it was filmed a while ago because of the film’s dreamy quality and actors’ clothing. After doing some quick research, I discovered that the show first aired over thirty years ago. Time passes so quickly!

ALF, which originally premiered in the 1980s, featured a witty, fuzzy, brown, sarcastic alien as the star.  Prior to the popularity of today’s reality shows, ALF aired when TV had an entirely different level of innocence. Old shows always contained a bit of spiciness, but nothing like today. 

Just like an old TV show, a child’s school portraits, from one year to the next, indicate the passage of time. Some people believe faces reveal more than the passage of time.  Chinese face reading supposedly tells the kind of personality traits people possess. Here’s a bit of analysis:

I wonder if a scientific experiment would prove the credibility of Chinese face reading?   I can see how our responses to life’s experience might become etched on our faces. When you look in the mirror, what experience does your face reveal about your past?   


Note: Former video exchanged for a more family-friendly one.