The obsession with possibilities is characteristic of liberal modernity and likely behind the obsession we have with youth. Possibility is construed as freedom,

The obsession with possibilities is characteristic of liberal modernity and likely behind the obsession we have with youth. Possibility is construed as freedom, and to the liberal mind, to commit to anything is to become less free, because it necessarily entails the loss of possibility. Thus, we perpetually hover in indecision, itself a decision. We try to maximize some ill-defined "possibility" at all cost, and in doing so, we maximize our stagnation, the foundation for boredom and the true lack of freedom, and freedom is the ability to do the good. It is spreading yourself thin, to weaken resolve, to accomplish nothing, to become nothing, or to become worse. Depression, anxiety, feelings of pointlessness set in. This is the serial divorcee who, having married one woman, now notices that, yes, there are indeed other women in the world! Tormented by unvisited possibility, he leaves his wife to repeat the cycle, never really embarking on the journey of marriage with anyone. This is opportunism. It is childish, a failure to leave behind childish things. It is living in a land of fantasy and infantile false hope.