It seems that lately I’ve been comparing things in life to things in photography. I’m not sure why that is — maybe it’s because we attempt to use the latter to capture fleeting glimpses of the former, as best we can. Sometimes when you take a photo, you try to isolate one thing, something of interest, from everything else in the photo. By using narrow depths of field, you can blur out the background, eliminate the noise, and bring your subject into greater “obviousness”, for lack of a better word. Lately, it seems that I’ve been trying to apply bokeh (the camera term for this) to my real life. Often times, we become paralysed by choice. Too many options. Some times these options get narrowed down by ourselves, and other times, it’s done for us. The former is often difficult. The latter is often abrupt. In both cases, they reinforce the remaining options, and perhaps make choosing one of those an easier task.