Life's Challenges and Choices

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In life we are faced with challenges and choices. Do we choose the path that seems easier or the path that is harder? Do we choose to follow our hearts or someone else’s? Do we think about how it will affect us and our loved ones or do we just go with it? Do life choices change our fate?
Life choices change the present, but will they push us off our true path? In the biography ‘Wave of Destruction’ by Eric Krauss. Puek and Dang had the choice to follow the path someone else had laid out for them, but neither followed. One decision turned out bad, one turned out alright. Puek had the choice to listen to the monk, whom told him is life “will go down to almost zero” (Krauss 60). Puek could have gone back to the monk and performed a ritual to get rid of the bad luck, but he forgot. Because Puek forgot, he lost his vision, most of his friends, and his money. Dang had the choice to leave her land and home to the hands of the Far East Company. Dang chooses to stay and fight for her home. Because Dang chosen to stay, her dogs were killed, and she started being followed. Dang could have c...

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