No Best Choice Ever (1) Think of choices you're facing everyday. It might be what to eat for dinner -- rice or noodles -- whether to buy a book or a dress -- or whether to keep or throw away an old stuff. Certainly, we’re making choices everyday and each choice we make matters our lives. This caused a interesting type of mental disease, which is called select phobia, namely, a fear of making choices. Why do we have a fear of making choices? How can we make good choices? We may find the answer in the talk of two ancient scholars. Once Huizi got a gourd as large as five bushel measure. He attempted to make use of it, however, it turned out to be that the large gourd is being too heavy to hold liquids and being too flat to be used as a ladle. So he broke it up. Zhuangzi commented Huizi as a stuffy mind because he believed that he can make a float on the river by this large gourd, open-mindedly and lightheartedly. People today praise Zhuangzi as a wise man, for he had followed the natural law and made a good choice. On the other hand, Huizi has been regarded as a bean counter, greedy and knowing nothing about using large things. The truth is that, somehow, we have been kidnapped by the universally recognized good choices, such as being rich is better than being poor. We are anxious to find the good choices so that we can be closer to the ultimate happy life. Thus, in the fear of making bad choices, we start to reason, to assess the pros and cons between different alternatives. Since the gourd is such a large thing, it seems to be a waste to simply broke it up. However, except the external reason of “large” of that gourd, Huizi also gave us his own internal reason -- large as it is, it is of no use to him. In such a word, broke it up became a rational act, for broke it will surely save a large space. Huizi is not as as stupid as Zhuangzi believe, rather, he had only made his good choice in his own sense.