Renting Out Decisions

What do you do when you feel too overwhelmed to make life decisions anymore?  The obvious choice would be to let complete strangers decide for you, right?  Maybe not, but it has worked for Chen Xiao of China, who got tired of making the wrong decisions and feeling unhappy with her life.  So she finally made one last decision: to stop making her own choices.

Xiao started a website where other people could decide her life for her, and every day she will do what someone else decides she should.  She charges $3 an hour to do all kinds of odd requests.  So far she has done things such as taken care of stray cats, delivered soup to a homeless man, and taken pictures for a family during the birth of their child, which she says was the most meaningful task she has performed thus far.

“If somebody asks you to do something, something simple, and you do it, it can make you very happy.  You can change from a gloomy person to a very bright one.  It can help give you a new sense of self-esteem,” she told CNN.

Xiao does have limits to her services, and will not do anything illegal or something she feels is immoral.  It’s just a way to try to find meaning in her life and help other people with theirs.  “When people stop needing me, I’ll go back to my original life.  But I don’t know what will come.”

Her site is in Chinese, but you can still look through the pictures where she documents all the things she does for others: Chen Xiao