Even if you choose not to decide, you have still chosen...

Hi!

Have you ever reflected on the choices you make? Considered the relative "weight" they all have?

Well, I had quite a time at the grocery store today choosing between the Schick "Hydro Blast 5" razor, the "Xtreme3 Fitstyle Refresh"(also from Schick), and the "Mach 3 Turbo" razor from the Gillette corporation. Ultimately, I chose the Mach 3 Turbo, based mostly on my familiarity with that particular razor. This process of choosing made me reflect on how important choices are in our lives. The razor choice is one that you make based on how you want to feel. I mean, the Hydro Blast 5 (better than models 1,2,3 & 4 by the way) makes me feel as if I'm going to get a hydro blast to my face, back and neck when I'm shaving (which by-the-fucking-way I have to do regularly now as the "Angel Of Death"). The Hydro Blast 5 sounds...."comforting". But not bad-ass. I, being the hard-charger that I am, like to feel bad-ass when shaving. When I use my Mach 3 Turbo (Previous Mach 3 models have included the Mach 3 "2-cylinder" and the Mach 3 "4-cylinder", both colossal marketing failures), I feel like a smooth-faced fighter pilot who's prowess in military tactics and airborne warfare is exceed only by his good looks and smooth-faced appearance. And he gets the girl. Every time. Big time.

Anyway, the decision process I faced today served as the catalyst for my thoughts on the weight of our choices in life. You know? Every choice shapes the course of the next few seconds, the next few minutes, the day, the week, the year......ANY choice has weight. The new route we take home....the song we didn't write....the food we eat.....the things we drink....every little choice shapes something in our lives, and others lives. But, as most of you would agree, few choices carry as much weight as:

Choosing bath towels that will ACTUALLY remove the water from your skin, rather than just "moving" it around.

Almost nothing consumes my life more than this right now. See, after searching for quite some time, I recently bought some new towels. They're 100% cotton. They're the "no frills" type of towels --supposedly. One of them is tiger striped design. These towels are "the ones" that felt as if they would fucking evaporate the water off your skin with one fell swoop. I fondled hundreds of towels to eventually arrive at these. Why, I even carefully avoided the lures of the "Ultra Comfort 3000" brand towels that claim to be "ultra" absorbent,organic and also 100% cotton. Ultra pricey too, but they do offer a tiger striped model. I thought it was all just another marketing ploy with slick lingo and convincing packaging, so I went for middle-of-the-road towels. Towels that currently, after quite a few uses, seem to only "move" the water around rather than remove it. Has my choice to save a few bucks cost me a good portion of my sanity??? Did I choose poorly simply by over-thinking my options??? Are the "Ultra Comfort 3000" towels really that good?????? Are they actually the ones I've been seeking all this time?

Anyway, I chose, based on my research and life experience, and I chose poorly dear readers. And believe me, that choice is weighing heavily on me.....As of this writing, I am even second guessing my Mach 3 Turbo choice and feeling like I should have gotten the Xtreme3 Fitstyle Refresh razor.


In conclusion dear reader, I implore you to remember that every little thing you choose will shape your life...somehow.


~ZFJ