... a single choice

an either/or
a final decision
a journey with an end visible from the start
today's me the same one who'll be deciding tomorrow
what I know now
a good idea and now move along

Or even a bedside table - which have been purchased/inherited or just homed for as long as we've sought surfaces bedside.
But for me, there are only options and it's an "event" of choosing a new bedside table that conceals multitudes.

Not simply DIMENSIONS -

(which I'll need to take, write on a sticky, photograph so Apple photos may act as my filing assistant - my technologically serviceable workaround for my gossamer memory but which I nevertheless will forget having done, and so forget where to search or even to search, and so - enticed by this "fresh" task at hand - I will re-measure and maybe this time record those dimensions on a fresh note in Apple Notes and title and tag the hell out of it and so now have two places to not find the measurements. And since I'll be interrupted multiple times in this forking process, either by myself and another project that's inevitably in my path, or my kids, or my duties - so that

EACH DAY day will be a return to the beginning of this not even begun-to-launch project.

And I haven't even started to shop - 

For that will entail a similarly chaotic rifling through my "regular" sites, maybe even getting through them all in one day and as I went filling multiple shopping carts, congratulating myself as I do for my decisive   eye - obviously this will be Multiple Chrome windows which I may also try to organize handily - say a window for the re-solds, one for the high ends and one for the Wayfair-ish options.