Some years (decades?) ago, a saying become popular: "Choice reduces stress." I think it was meant to say that we have so many more choices than 100 or 1000 years ago, so we have less stress. In some areas it is true: I could not have had this job even 20 years ago, because it depends on the Internet, as well as computers, computer-aided design software, desktop publishing software, and so on. I'd have to be doing a different, less desireable job. Fewer choices of jobs = more stress.
But we don't have less stress. (Check me out when the network fails, yet again.) We have a new generation of aimless 20-somethings, the post-teenage adolescent. So many choices that they don't know what to do.
Choice creates stress.
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