Paralysed by indecision, confused by choice and unable to commit, you might be suffering from a very 2019 affliction.
Do you have Fobo? It sounds, to the lay ear, like a furry, adorable must-have Christmas toy; or perhaps like a new, neon-coloured online bank card run by several inner-city hipsters. In reality, it's a much-needed label for a very particular, painfully modern social anxiety: the Fear of Better Options.
Most of us have, at some point, sloped into the kitchen and opened the fridge door, intent on eating something - anything - only to gaze at the heaving shelves in stupefied silence, before closing it again and deciding that hunger is, in fact, preferable to making a decision.Well imagine that, but for almost every aspect of your life.
Fobo doesn't care whether you're trying to make a minor decision or a life-changing one - it will leave you overwhelmed by the plethora of options available and the promise of what might be ... if only you can make the best call possible. Because in 2019, there's just so much choice.So, then, here are six signs you may be Fobo-afflicted. And please, do read on, despite the temptation of the other articles surrounding this one. They'll still be there when you finish.
The inability to choose between a hen party, the opera and a SoulCycle class do not make for an obvious wardrobe ensemble. Trainers with an LBD and a novelty phallic necklace just in case? Lycra shorts under a ball gown with an L-plate pinned to your tiara? It's difficult, and while you've become adept at lugging around a bag that covers most options, the reality isn't that you're prepared for anything, it's that you're prepared for nothing.
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