Downsizing our Options?

Each person carries a backpack of choices. As we hike into life, we add more and more to that backpack - choices about which car to buy, who to marry, where to live, and which career to pursue. And on it goes. Gradually, our backpacks become so overloaded that we tip over backward onto them - our arms and legs flailing in the air like an overturned beetle trying to right itself. Eventually, our only option is to dump some stuff...