The Effects of the Choices We Make

Everyone has to make choices in their lives. As a child most of our choices are very small. For instance, choosing what toy we wanted to play with. The older everyone gets the more difficult choices, come into play. We take on the choices of adulthood. We control our future. We decide whether our life is a disaster or a success.
One of the simplest choices to make is to not make a choice at all. Sometimes not making a choice can save us from things we don’t want to know or have happen. Jimmy Buffet, a singer-songwriter, wrote a song titled, “I DON’T KNOW AND I DON’T CARE.” In Buffets’ song lyrics he writes:
“Why does the sun set in the west?
And why does my heart keep beating in my chest?
What ever happened to the Duke of Earl?
I got a PBS mind in an MTV world.
Is it ignorance or apathy
I forgot these lessons taught to me.
Some say life isn’t fair,
Hey, I don’t know, I don’t care.”
Buffet is being asked a series of questions that most people can’t even begin to wrap their minds around. Buffet makes the choice to not try to decipher the question and to just reply with, “Hey, I don’t know, I don’t care.”
Choices can help bring happiness into our lives when we have had a downer. Everyone has the choice to bring joy or sorrow into their lives. In the poem, “I Will Look for You,” writer, Ron Wallace, describes of how he looks for his mother in the everyday things he passes by.
In the beginning of the poem Wallace states, “Some days I think I’m past the loss; until a voice, a song, a sound.” Wallace is saying, that on some days he wakes up and thinks he’s done with the sorrow of his mother’s death, but he then finds her again when he sees or hears a certain person or thing. At the end of the poem, Wallace writes:
“I search t...

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... life changing question, “Will you marry me?” Overfilled with joy, fear, slight nausea, and unspeakable emotions, I replied, “Why? We are only eighteen!” By the next day, I did reply, “Yes. Of course!”
I don’t know how my marriage is going to be, that’s the effect of my choice. I may not find out for years, but on June 6th, 2014, my choice is finally set into stone. I will be a wife, a student, a friend, and eventually a mother. All I can do is hope that my choices now and in the future will have great effects on me and my husband’s life.
Choices are the stepping stones to the path of life. We make the choices that effect our lives. Some can cause joy and some can cause sorrow. Sometimes we don’t even need to make a choice, life continues no matter what. We just need to always remember our choices need to be thought upon. Our future is in the hand of our choices.