A Multi-Choice Dilemma

A Multi-Choice Dilemma

I have not yet understood whether the life is objective type question or subjective type. I have faced so many exams and at least on this matter the examiner is always clear. But Life’s role as an examiner is tortuous. You never know what you have to become on career path and which kind of wife you will get, how your child will be appeased and how friends will find you more interesting. You never know.

Whether you should mould the stream of general life in public or whether you have to be moulded by them, whether to opt for give and take or to do nothing. Oh, it looks like a multi-choice question. Nice. If anything is multi-choice, probability of my success shoots up. It’s not because I know how to choose the best answer, it’s because I know how to throw away the bad options and then the last one becomes automatically my answer. But what will you do if no option remains after the throwing away process.

Being subjective is more difficult. pronouncing more accurately, being subjective is faultier. It’s always judgemental. You propound your idea and then go on prove it with your never-perfect tools. The data you gather is never impartially mixed and the sample size is well below the minimum level of 30 and the statistical errors are much more than 5%. Every yardstick you break but even after that you think your judgement is immaculate. 

Being a multi-choicer is easy. But what will you do if all the choices are like candidates of General Elections. You know well that even The Supreme Court took cognizance of it and passed order that there should be an option to not to choose. This instance is itself enough to show the defect of multi-choice ideology. Multi-choice is always much, much more limited than an open sky choice i.e. Subjective Type Question. You can answer in a way you like. You have not only to choose among A, B, C or D.

One topic of debate is invariably popular among at least preparers of MBA entrances and even the Coaching Institutes allow this debate to happen in a formal Group Discussion. Yes, I know debate and GD are different but my statement is a truth. And the topic of the above-mentioned debate is,”Whether a person should go for a love marriage or for an arranged one?” Needless to mention the result of discussion, you have rightly guessed it.  You know well that arranged marriage is like a Subjective-type question and love marriage is like a Multi-choice question with innumerable options. In an arranged marriage, you can only think after it happens and you are required to be judgemental. And of course,  your answer must be positive otherwise you are a bad judge. Whereas in love marriages you always think about options. The options are so much that you often grow old before you settle down and again needless to say why, you settle down being a Subjective-type answerer. Because you can’t be a multi-choicer even after marriage, So, at least on this issue, Subjective-type method wins.

Life of a person is the biggest double-dealer I have found so far. And the problem with the person suffering from life is that he can not play turn-coat every time and again. It starts giving you myriads of choices initially and when you are enjoying your cosy comfort, you find yourself with no option. 

You study day and night for years with an aim to get a good job which you have thought best for you and when you get it you discover that you have to give much more than you receive there. Now you have no choice because you have deliberately made yourself tailor-made for it only. And after some years you can’t fit anywhere else but only here.

 Suppose you enter a restaurant cherishing a sweet will of making a choice between tea and coffee. And yes, there is really an option for that, but once your order process is irrevocably complete, you come to know that there is no provision of sugar-cubes there and the cook is too liberal in mixing sugar. You cover up your face with your palms and say, “Alas, save me from this multi-choice”.
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