Choice

We make choices all the time either good or bad. We choose to become someone in life. We choose to go to school to do well, to obey our parents and older people they guide us through what is good and bad but we choose what path to take. Some choices are not easy to make. Sometimes we need help but we have the last word. I chose to go to school to prepare myself to be someone in life to depend on my own. We hope we make good choices. Some are hard to make depending on the situation we are in. Some people might not have the freedom to make their own choices. Sometimes their choices are made for them. I had to choose either to stay in school and graduate or to drop out and take my GED. I chose to stay. No one lives our life but us. I chose to stay no one but me. Making choices are not easy. There was a lot of thinking either what was going to happen if I drop out what was going to be of me where will I be in five years who will it hurt at the end of the day there's lot of thinking positive as negative before making my choices. I am happy with the choices I have made. I don't regret any choice. They have made me the person I am today.

Choices that happen in the poem by Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken." "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood," the path was divided into two paths. One of the roads bent into the undergrowth. The author had to choose what path he was going to take. He chose the other path as well "Then took the other, as just as fair." The author chose to take the path that was less traveled that no one passes through he choose not to pass through the other path that probably. The majority of people take. He didn't follow the path that most people will choose to, take he chose to take another path. This poem shows that we make our own choices. Sometimes we might choose to follow someone else's path or sometimes we can choose to make our own path.

When we are furious we make the wrong choices. In the legend "La LLorona" a Hispanic legend, Maria made the wrong choice when she was furious. Her husband didn't want her any more. He didn't pay attention. She saw him with another woman. She took her anger out on her kids. " Maria seized her two children and threw them into the river!" as she saw her two kids disappear she had realized what she had done and it was too late to safe them they had drown in the water. Maria died there. Maria was buried where she was found dead. It is said that every night she cry's for her kids "Where are my children?" Maria took the wrong choice of throwing her children in the river. When we choose what to do sometimes is late and there's no going back to change what we choose to do.

"Dead End" by Rudolfo Anaya Maria was a good student always getting good grades she was not like other girls at school. She was different. She was really dedicated to school to her mom who had died and Maria had promised when she was dying that she will finish school and get an education. Maria liked a boy at school. Everyone was afraid of him in the neighborhood. He and his gang just liked to party, to smoke, and the girls. Maria wanted to hang with the crowd but everything she wanted to give up in education she will remember what she had promise to her mom when she was dying. Maria chose not to hang with his crew. She wanted her life to have a meaning "Maria didn't want to just disappear, she wanted her life to have a meaning, and that meant keeping to her mother's dream." Maria chose not to smoke Frankie the kid she liked she was no like one of them she chose to continue her promise she had made and finish school and college.

An essay "The Tyranny of Choice" by Barry Schwartz talked about the connection people have when having to make a choose "it seems that as society grows wealthier and people become freer to do whatever they want. They get less happy." Every choice that we take there's always either a positive or negative response. Either we get what we want or we lose. Everyone is different we either make choice to make are self feel happy or to make others feel happy. At the time of making a choice we are putting are happiness at risk sometimes the choices we choose don't only affect us it affects everyone around us as well. We should be happy that we have the freedom of making our own choices. Some people don't have the freedom to make their choices. We try to take the correct choices sometimes we make the wrong choices. Sometimes we are satisfifed with the choices we had made but sometimes we might regret the choice we took. I'll consider myself a “maximizer” "(those who always aim to make the best possible choice)" and “satisficers” "(those who aim for “good enough,” whether or not better selections might be out there)." We should feel minimally satisfied with making a choice of our own. Sometimes we should aim for better choices. What can make us regret those choices we took either we hurt someone with the choice we took or not getting the results we wanted. When deciding on the choices we want to make in our lives sometimes we need to make sacrifices and adapting to the choices we make. We got to get use too the choices we took either we like it or not. We have sometimes high exceptions to the choices we take sometimes are expectation are to high that we can't accomplish and we don't get to our high expectation we might be disappointed.

"Fame without riches... Riches without fame" a cartoon by Joseph Farris a man needs to chose what he wants either fame and not being rich or being rich and not have fame sometimes in are choices we can't have all we want sometimes there are sacrifices that needs to be make like the guy in the cartoon he needs to decide either fame or being rich. The choices we make sometimes are the hardest and no one can help us make our choices other times we might ask for advice guidance but at the end we got he last word and we chose what we want and is better for us. This man at the cartoon has a hard decision to make. He either got to choose fame or be rich. Everyday we have to make a choice. Either go to school, go to work, eat healthy or not. We have to make them by ourselves.

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