Similar to my own feelings.
Another metaphor is that of a shopping mall as reality, and each of us consumers. As we wander around the shops, we each collect information about that universe, much like a shopper will fill their cart. And everyones' cart is going to be different, they will probably not see everything they could have bought, and they will have decided to not buy many things after they thought about it. In the Mall of Life, my goal is to see as much as I can, while buying into very little.