Choices

Life is full of choices. I think someone said that, but I don’t think there is a famous example to go with it. Here is one such example.

Imminently, I will leave for a “grillparty” (barbecue). I was asked to bring the Internationally acclaimed Feta Pate. On Friday I went to the grocery store and picked up the items for the pate. As you might imagine, feta is a key and crucial ingredient in the pate. My preference is to use feta in a brine, rather than feta that has been vacuum packed.

At the Edeka–the grocery store I went to–there were a few feta choices but only one was in a brine. The choice seems obvious, right? Well, the one in the brine was also a Bio product, which is Europe’s “certified organic”. I was forced to choose between feta in a brine, or a non-certified organic choice.

I won’t tell you which I chose but use it as a practical example for the sort of choices we all make every day, where two values that are important to us collide and we have to choose which is most important to us. It usually isn’t easy, but the difficulty is commensurate with importance. The only thing we can hope for is that we always make the best choice at the time.