The garden of choice

The garden of Eden was not just a place of beauty ; it was a place of blissful ignorance. God had wanted Adam and Eve to live in oblivion, since the ability to see right from wrong, and good from evil, was only god's to make. But since mankind ate from the fruit of the tree of wisdom, paradise became the place that introduced us to the (until then strictly divine) concept of choice and ability to decide.

We have felt the perpetual torment of choice ever since. Our garden is a playful tribute to that that was given us in paradise: we have devised a park that helps you decide. A park to visit when you feel you are at crossroads in your life, love, work, or just when some minor stupid thing is clogging your thinking. An endless forked path through a field of daisies that will bring you to a decision: one of seven old doors engraved with an answer.

(Competitor's text)

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