Choose Wisely

Man oh man. Has it really been two months since I last posted?! Well I guess the saying is true, time flies when you're having fun. I truly have had lots of fun these past two months. Quick update on my life. College is fantastic. So much better than high school, so hang in there seniors!! Colorado is wonderful. The weather is perfect. It is starting to get cold, and if you know me at all, you know that I adore the cold weather. Waking up and seeing the mountains every day is also a nice touch.
  Ok enough about me. I want to talk to you about a topic that I have wanted to write about for a while now. I want to discuss the topic of choices. I think personally that all life is, is a collection of our choices. That it is why this topic is important. We all make so many choices every day. The neat thing about choices is that every choice has consequence. When people hear the word consequence, they automatically assume something negative, but that is not the case. A consequence can be either positive or negative.  Let's use something super basic as an example..brushing your teeth. Hopefully, you all are brushing your teeth in the morning. If you brush your teeth in the morning, you receive the positive consequence of having nice breath! If you don't brush your teeth, then your breath smells terrible all day, and nobody wants to talk to you, and you get cavities, and your teeth look terrible. Haha, this is a super surface level example but its totally true if you think about any choice you make! Another thing about choices is they absolutely do not just affect you. Every choice you make has an effect on other people. When you brush your teeth, it has an effect on your parents because it will lower their dental bills, and other people will get to smell your nice breath! When you do not brush your teeth, your parents have to pay more for the dentist, and everybody has to smell your terrible breath.
   It would be nice if our choices only affected us personally, but that is not the case. When we make decisions, it is important to think about how they will affect other people. Making choices based solely on ourselves is selfish. I know somebody who made a lot of extremely selfish decisions, and when asked why they would make those decisions, the person responded with "I deserve to be happy." Because of these decisions this person ended up hurting a lot of innocent people, and this person's life will never be the same. The people that this person hurt, their lives will also never be the same. Its important to treat yourself and be happy, but not at the expense of other people.
  I have made so many bad choices in my life. Like one time, i convinced my friend Katie Egbert and my sister Sophia that it would be a good idea to crawl up the drainage pipe underneath our street. That was a bad choice haha. I have also made a lot of good choices, though. I made the choice to come to college in Colorado, and that has been the best choice of my life. I hope that my good choices have outweighed my bad haha but if you tend to make a lot of bad choices, it is not too late to turn that around. I have gone through seasons in my life where it seems like every choice I made was terrible, but looking back I have learned so much from those mistakes. I am not saying it is ok to make bad choices because it is not and I am still suffering the consequences of my bad choices. But id you do make a bad choice, learn from it and try not to let it happen again. I know easier said than done.
    The concept of choice is super cool because it gives us the power. We get to decide what we choose. If you're like me, then you like to be in control, and choices give us that power to be in control. I heard saying a while ago, and it goes like this "Good choices, good life. Bad choices, bad life". Its as simple as that folks. We get to choose the type of life we want to live. It is completely up to us. The life we live, the story we tell, is it 100% up to us what that will look like. No pressure!! I feel like I am rambling, so I am going to end with a quote. Somebody I used to know once told me this "Two natures lie beneath my chest. One is foul, and one is blessed. One I love and one I hate, but the one I feed will dominate," Choose wisely.