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Choice

Life is full of choices. Making choices is what makes my life what it is. I make my own way through life. I'm happy with the choices I've made so far in my life. Some were bad and some were good, but either way it's made me who I am today. In the future, I will continue to make better choices and improve as a person. For an example, I don't have to come to school every morning and get an education to get ahead in life. But I do, that's a choice I have made for myself.

In the poem "The Road Not Taken" the main character has a choice to make. He's in the woods and he has to choose between two roads that he should take. His choice was the second road. The second road was his choice because no one had gone through there. He wanted to make his own way so he decided to go where no one has gone before. In one part of the poem he mentions how he doubted if he should ever come back. When he made a choice, he was also taking a risk. He wasn't sure where this road was going to lead him, but he took it anyway because it was his own choice to take that road.

In the short story "Dead End" it shows a perfect example of making the right choices. A young girl named Maria is left to take care of her younger siblings after her mother passed away. Maria is only a senior in high school and already has a lot of responsibilities. Maria had a choice to not go to school, and hang out with the wrong crowd, or she could continue to go to school, do well and be a good influence to her younger siblings. She made the right choice and did the right thing. Maria stayed in school and stood away from gangs and bad influence. Before her mother had passed away, Maria made a promise with her and told her she would get her education and become someone one day. That's exactly what Maria did. Even though there were many distractions, she stood by her word and made the choice to do the right thing. A story similar to this one is "La Llorona". The only difference in the La Llorona is that the young girl made the wrong choice. Long after she made that choice she realized it wasn't the right one. Maria's mother would always tell her this story. Every time there was a moment where Maria had bad influence around her she thought about her mother and the story, La Llorona.

In "The Tyranny of Choice" it talks about people and the choices they make and why they make these choices. Since there is so much to choose from, it shows graphs on a persons feelings or reactions to a certain choice they made. It shows that having too much to choose from actually decreases your happiness. There are over 100 different options for everything. Example, toothpaste. There are so many different kinds of toothpaste I can choose from. All of them have different effects , flavors , and colors. It's hard to ever choose when there are so many. Which one is the right one, which one works best? Also there is always a new toothpaste coming out, which makes it harder for anybody to choose a toothpaste. If things were simple ,and there were fewer things to choose from it would make a lot of peoples lives easier.

This picture shows how indecisive people can be. There are so much shirts to choose from so it makes it harder to get dressed in the morning. If he had less to choose from then it would be quicker and easier. The choice he makes will reflect on his whole day. Depending on his mood, that's how he will choose a shirt.

Our lives are based on choices that we make. Depending on our choices, our lives will lead into different directions. Even though making a choice isn't always easy, we chose one eventually. For an example, in the story "Dead End". Maria makes the choice to not hang out with the wrong crowd and do right. She could have easily made the other choice to hang out late, smoke, drink , and do bad in school and not care about anything but she didn't. Therefore, the outcome of her choice was great. Shes going to graduate from high school and move on to college and start her career. Just like her mother would've wanted.