In this life, you can either choose to embrace the uncertaintity you experience or let it consume you and eventually and you these were my thoughts after coming across Sylvia Pla's fig tree analogy in which she illustrates a paralysis of choice through her starving self sitting at the crotch of a fig tree hesitant to pick up a fig and satisfy her hunger because all the figs metaphorically represent different life possibilities. This overwhelms her and fuels her indecision. As she's left sitting under the tr ...