All for one and one for all - or not.

Indecision is a real killer - and it's a truly horrible problem in this day and age, with thirteen million versions or options of each and every thing you try to buy, use, or sign up for.

Take blogging, for example. I finally took the plunge, signed up for one, and started writing on here... but then I follow one link to another link and end up on LiveJournal - another Blog site. And then I go, "oh, yeah!" Meaning, I remember how cool that site is and remind myself that I was going to sign up for it once upon a sugar plum fairy...

But I already signed up for Blogger aka Blogspot, right?

So, what to do? All I wanted was a simple blog where I could post a few thoughts... and I ended up sitting here searching for a brick wall to bang my head into... What if it's a cooler site? What if more people read it, or it will have more to offer?

Do I switch? Do I stay put? Do I think about switching sometime in the future?

Isn't this the case with everything nowadays? Let's say you finally decide you want a super-fancy "I do everything except make toast" type cell phone - something like the new Blackberry's, the iPhone (wa-hoot!), or any of the hundreds of other phone-type-gadgets that check your email, go online, and possibly even give you a back massage. Wouldn't it be nice if you could walk into the PHONE STORE and say "I want one of those phone-type gadgets that does all that stuff" and voila!, you're done...

But, noooo... You've got to consider the different carriers: Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, TMobile and on and on. Then you've got to choose a phone, a model of that phone, a service plan, memory size - the list literally goes on and on

I'm not advocating Communism here - I'm not thinking that we should have one government operate phone company with no Capitalist market. I'm just wondering if we're driving ourselves insane here.

Maybe I'm just in a grumpy mood today, but everything sure seems darn complicated in this day and age.

So, in leiu of my blog's little theme there, Cinematic Living, I can just see a perfect scene... Airhead ditz girl decides she wants something - be it to write a blog, to buy a cell phone, or even to go and get a soda from a local cafe. But said ditz is not blessed by the ease of saying "I'd like a cell phone please" - no, she has to deal with which brand, what features, how much, service plans, and on and on.

And so, is there a moral to this story, erm... rant? Why yes, I think there is. Last night, my mom and I went to see a presentation of The Long Way Down, a film of a motorcycle trip taken by actors Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman (I'll probably blog on this again soon). In it, they traveled from John O'Groats Scotland (the tip top) to Cape Town South Africa (the very bottom). Especially in Africa, they met many sweet, kind people who had almost nothing... but time and time again, they found that these people were willing to share everything. These are people who deal with what food they'll find for dinner, not what type of cell phone to buy.

So why is our society so stuck on dealing with this affluenza type Consumerism? Why can't we realize what's more important in life?

That's a question I just don't have an answer to. On that *happy* note, adieu.