In London's Heathrow Airport two weeks ago on a layover between Italy's mainland and the United States, I perched on a bar stool in front of a delightful revolving sushi bar ... where all the sushi you can eat is yours for the taking.
It's incredibly entertaining to watch a revolving sushi bar. You sit, you review, you decide, you grab, you eat. Small colorful plates riding by on a twisty conveyor belt around the parameter of the cafe. I couldn't help but think of them as tiny flying saucers as if I was in an episode of The Jetsons.
I eyed a bunch of plates passing by before deciding on a scrumptious-looking type of sushi with those little crunchy things on top. Ate it and liked it so much, I nabbed another one. Tasted one other sushi after that, before I became distracted by a yummy-looking chocolate moon mochi calling my name. I grabbed that choice.
But I did not like it. The ice-cream-like dessert was way too rich and just ... nah. I left one of two puffy pieces on the plate. Oh well - I had taken a chance on my choice. Of course, I still had to pay for it; it was my mistake after all, no one else's.
Snippeteers, the world is like that conveyor belt, offering us oodles of choices passing by ... tiny or giant, boring or enticing, smart or stupid, dangerous or safe, cheap or expensive, pretty or ugly, long or short, black or white, careful or careless.
Choices, choices, choices - spinning quickly past us.
We must decide quickly sometimes or else ... whoosh! There goes that one - out of reach, out of sight. SO many choices in one day: what to eat, where to go, how to say it, when to leave, what to wear, where to accept a job, who to call, which house to select, what color to pick, who to love, who to stop loving, Crest or Pepsodent, when to get married, latte or cappuccino ... daily life choices go on and on and on, around and around.
We choose. We take chances. Sometimes we trust ourselves; mostly we don't. Sometimes our choices bring us delight, other times misery. Whether we like them or not, whether we chose good or bad, right or wrong - either way, we still must pay.
