The Discomfort of Abundance

“Too many things!”, yes, these days there are so many things that bore me.

A person gets bore, when he or she has nothing to do. When they have same way of living life everyday with no other options.

But these days, there is no such situation. On options, there are umpteen number of options in almost anything.

Be it entertainment, travel, food and so many.

The strange thing is, even kids these days are getting bore. Sometimes, it makes me think, what is it that making them bore, as for us at that age, there was no time from playing and doing lit many things.

I think the major culprit of making us bore is ‘having so many options’.

I get bore when –

I open a menu on a food app and see so many food options

I start YouTube and get confused on what to play?

Decide to go out, can’t zero in on where to go?

Get bore scrolling endlessly

“Not able to decide”, is what makes us bore than anything.

Sometimes, those old days are felt like heaven. The compulsion of doing things in a set manner. At least, there was a freedom from taking any particular decision and those days there were not with many options available to choose from.

In the end, its the ‘Discomfort of Abundance’ is what bores me the most.