The dream started badly. You were in line with your family at a fast food restaurant waiting to be sent to the grocery store. Everywhere you looked there were posters of president-elect Donald Duck, looking like a crazy monkey who could eat a whole lot of bananas.
Suddenly, there was Ralph Waldo Emerson telling you, "Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles." You realized that you have something to contribute to the world so you decided to dance. But it wasn't easy. First you had to put on a fancy outfit and shoes and then you had to make a pizza to go back in time to the fair so you could convince people to learn about the candidates and that everyone is the same no matter what race they are.
But right there in the fair there was a giant turkey and it started gobbling at everyone. People started to scream. You grabbed a radio from a nearby stand and yelled stop the racism. Everyone stopped and listened, so you kept going.
Some choices we make in this moment can benefit us or damage
us right now or later in our future. In life, we sometimes tend to make
decisions that we know are right or that seem beneficial at the time. We don’t
always see the negative stuff in things until it affects us. We all I know,
well I think, that the choices we make right now will lead us to the future we
are headed. When we make choices we might not imagine how it might lead us or
affect our future. All decisions have a good and a bad outcome that we might
not know at the moment. Good choices are those whose outcomes meet our
expectations and bad choices are those who don’t whose outcomes don’t meet our
expectations. Our actions might not be as smart and mature sometimes, but
whatever we do we can’t change it when it’s done.
When I make
choices, I usually think twice before I say what I’m going to do, say, want, or
receive, also it can be the opposite, it can be something that I don’t want to
do, say, want, or receive. Being smart and wiser will probably bring you better
results than just not thinking and doing things without looking at the
negatives first. We always have to be wise in making decisions. My actions create
my individual self because the way I think and act, in a good way of course. For
example, last year I made the choice that I was going to take the challenge and
risk to raise a market show steer for the Santa Barbara County Fair. It was a
risky and brave choice that I made that day last year, which I knew was going
to be challenging but fun at the same time. This choice I had made was going to
decide on how my future was going to be like.
Who would’ve known, that that choice would’ve made a huge positive turn
in my life. It was probably one of the most important choices that I don’t
regret at all. It was challenging, dangerous, and life risking, but it was fun
and unforgettable. I made so much memories that would last a life time. That
choice I made changed my life that I decided to raise another market show steer
this year. With some experience under my belt I would know how to make this
experience better and unforgettable, just like last year. The memories will
make will last a lifetime.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson once said, "Nothing can bring you peace, but yourself."
It really is true what Emerson said. Nobody else knows what makes you happy,
but yourself. Only you know what you can do and not do. That’s how life works, that’s
why your choices will lead you to your future. Emerson says to not rely on other
people to do the stuff for you, or for them to tell you what to do. No person
is going to live your life their own way. We have to make choices that will
benefit us and not think about what others think. If we rely on others do tell us
what to do, then we might not live life as much as we would like to and regret
it later in the future. Many of us don’t make our own choices because of fear
of what others might think about you. We are too scared to do things because we
don’t want to feel left out. We want to fit into society, when in reality, not
fitting with society is way more important. Being the same as others is way too
boring. If we’re all the same then this world would be so boring, there will no
reason for us to live if everything we’re going to see is going to be the same.
We can be the change in this world if we make our own choices. The future can
be a better place if we make ourselves better first by not depending on others,
which is exactly what Emerson says throughout his whole essay. If you want to
see a change in this world, then you should step up and do something about it. In
my opinion, the first step will be to make your own choices to lead you to your
next step. We are allowed make our own choices because we only know what they
will benefit us with.
Ray
Bradbury once said in this essay “A Sound of Thunder,” “What sort of world it
was now, there was no telling.” Imagine living in a world that we don’t even
know what’s going on. This is where our choices come in. If we don’t really
make wise choices, then we might not know what this world would be like. Choices
in this world determine our future, like literally. Bradbury makes it really
clear in his essay how we the choices can change the results of the future. One
single change can change everything. We never see the real things in stuff
until it affects us in a way. We don’t always know what the right or wrong
choices are until we take them and see the results. There are times when we
know what the right choice is and what the wrong choice is. There’s also times
that we don’t know at all because we don’t really look at it closely. No matter
what choices we make in life, there will be no way we will be able to change
them.
In conclusion,
choices play an important role in everyone’s life. Without choices life will be
so boring and plain. Our choices are what make up our future and our life interesting
along the way. So, try to always make the right choices that way your future
will be amazing!!
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