As a concrete example, you may buy the new automobile, but then not have enough money in your bank account to pay the rent three months later. In the mature adult world, we focus upon the foreseeability of ultimate delayed consequences, viewing present actions as a choice among those ultimate consequences. In the real world, choice is choice. Choice is a selection among several options and implies that one cannot have them all. If one could have them all and nothing need be given up, then there would be no need to choose.
Choice always means giving up something and means undergoing some sort of discomfort.
Under this pathological distortion the admission of whether or not there is choice is no longer determined by the availability of various options and consequences, but by the occurrence of immediate discomfort . If an option means there must be a giving up of something or the experiencing of discomfort, then that option is no longer looked upon as an option or choice and is expunged by process of omission or de-emphasis. Since decision or choice inherently means the discomfort of giving up something, choice is rejected. Many people don't accept choice. They don't want choice or decision to be the choice or decision, they want something else to be the choice or decision.