There was a time when life didn’t come with a search bar. You ate what your mother made, wore what the local tailor stitched, married someone your family approved of. Life felt predictable—maybe even boring—but it wasn’t chaotic.

Then came the explosion. Products, platforms, possibilities. From toothpaste to life partners, everything now has a dropdown menu. With abundance came something we didn’t expect: anxiety.

Suddenly, we needed help choosing. And we turned to technology.

Take Spotify. Or any music app. You sign up, select a few artists, and it begins recommending what you might like. Some of it fits. Much of it doesn’t. You still swipe through songs. Still skip. Still think, “this isn’t quite it.”

Because today’s tech is still playing catch-up. It responds to your past. It listens to what you liked before. It doesn’t know you want a melancholic 90s Hindi tune with a sitar because it rained this morning and you’re feeling something you can’t name.

The tools we’ve built are good, but they fall short. They still ask us to choose. And we’re tired of choosing.

That’s where AI steps in. And not gently.

AI doesn’t just reduce options. It removes them. It watches. Learns. Predicts. And then quietly offers you one choice—the one it thinks fits best.

And strangely, you begin to trust it. Like you once trusted a priest, or your father, or a gut feeling. You say:

“You know me better than I know myself.”

That’s not just tech. That’s faith.

And here’s the strange irony: we created a world full of options. Then got overwhelmed. Then built systems to manage the overwhelm. And now we’ve created AI to erase the options altogether.

We created the problem. We’re solving it. And we’re creating another problem.

Because as smart as AI is, it’s still built on your past behavior. It shows you who you’ve been, not who you might want to become.

So yes, AI can recommend the perfect book. But it won’t ask why you even feel the need to read it tonight. What are you trying to feel? Avoid? Prove?

Maybe the real question isn’t, which music is right for me? Maybe it’s, why do I even need music right now? What am I trying to fill, escape, or silence?

That awareness will take you further than any playlist.

The better you know yourself, the fewer choices you’ll need. The clearer your mind, the less noise you’ll crave.

Because in the end, abundance isn’t the enemy. Confusion is.

So yes, use AI. Let it help. Let it whisper suggestions.

But never hand over the steering wheel.

• Use tech as support, not a crutch
• Let AI assist, but not replace your voice
• Make choices—even imperfect ones—they shape who you are
• And most importantly, protect the parts of you that no algorithm can decode

No one—human or machine—can know you better than you.

And that’s the part you must hold on to.

The world will keep giving you more. But clarity? That only comes from within.