Choices are made constantly, every day by everyone. When a choice is made, no matter who makes it, it can impact any one. These impacts can be emotional and possibly even physical, depending on the choices made and the severity of them. All choices in the world are linked with a butterfly effect. The butterfly effect is the concept that even the smallest thing, like the flap of a butterfly’s wing, can cause something huge. Therefore, any choice a person makes can impact someone else in any way possible, big or small.
Our choices influence how we live and how people see us, whatever decision we make impacts not only us, but our family as well. To start off, in the movie Forrest Gump directed by Robert Zemeckis, Forrest the main character is in love with his best friend, but when he goes to marry her, she puts him down. When Forrest asks Jenny to marry him and that he would make a good husband and she responds with “you would, Forrest” and then continues to say you don’t want to marry me. – Here Forrest is hurt that the love of his life does not want to be with him, but she is only hurting him because she is afraid of commitment and afraid to let him down. She loved him, but knows she cannot commit to something she
Consequences are an effect to any choice no matter good or bad. Strongly shown in The Outsiders By: S. E. Hinton the main character Ponyboy Curtis, a young 14 year old is forced to make courageous and heroic decisions from a very young age. Being the younger one and living with his two older brothers Darry, age 20 and Sodapop, age 16 he is often over loved. He belongs to a group called the Greasers, rivals of a wealthier group named the Socials, but more commonly known as the Socs. One night after going to the movies Ponyboy and his friend Johnny fall asleep in a vacant lot.
Whether good or bad, decisions make a significant impact on a person’s experience. A common mistake a person can make when it comes to making decisions is their choice only affects them. In reality, decisions not only affect the decision maker, but those who are connected to them. In Willa Cather’s My Antonia, a choice to end their life by their own hands causes the one person who is closest to the deceased to make decisions based on their choice.
The Unbearable lightness of choosing “Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.” -Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000 I personally agree with the writer Jon Spayde on all the aspects he has mentioned in this paper. The writer has discoursed various facets regarding the importance of alternatives in one’s life. But, a very significant point mentioned in this article is, that when a certain individual is in a position to make his own choices or take his own decisions he must keep in mind that he alone will not be the one to face the consequences, but many people will be a part of his decisions. So one must give a serious thought when making a choice, which may have an impact not just on one life but, on the lives of many others. Mr. Spayde points out the fact, that having a choice is the luxury of the privileged class. The unprivileged class cannot afford the luxury of choice. Now the situation is not that bad but we all know that they have limited choices and this lack of choice causes a problem for them in certain situations. According to my own experience, though the lack of choices may cause hurdles at times, still, there deficiency is sometimes ‘a blessing in disguise’. When a person is confined to a certain number of options he has no other way out, but to choose amongst them. This might be the making of an individual. Like we consider an example of a
In the Poem “Certain Choices” by Richard Shelton, the cause and effect text structure develops the theme that some decisions can make way to subsequent choices. Mr. Shelton states “He died, of course, because of the way he lived”(Richard shelton). His friend made the choice to
Everyone has choices in life, and these choices are what define us. Sometimes they can affect not only the decision maker, but it can affect others too, whether it is just a few people or it is millions of people. This is why a choice
My connections look at how certain choices can affect your life forever. The texts that I used to convey this link were The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Slumdog Millionaire directed by Danny Boyle, The Shawshank Redemption directed by Frank Darabont and a poem by Robert Frost called The Road Not Taken. Throughout the texts used we learn that you cannot always see the outcome of a particular choice unless you choose to go down that path. An important decision is made by the main character(s) in each text and they suggest that not all choices are easy to make and can have positive and negative consequences.
Subsequently, they quickly learn to dread the result of reshaping fate. The unimaginable power fate has over human will is best left untouched, because the consequences are unanticipated, fate tries to balance changes from human will, and people face remorse trying to alter their fate. Although free will is able to change the future, fate leads to unexpected results that show people should not bother to alter it. The outcome is not usually what one anticipates for.
“Some people wind up in trouble because of bad luck, but others make dangerous choices”, sometimes people do things for important reasons but others don’t, but this isn’t an excuse to hide from the reality and the responsibility for their actions.. This is necessary because many don't think that this is a priority but many people are going through this and it impact their live so much that they are no longer the same person they were before, and this encourages people that are reckless and don’t care about others to be able to do anything crazy because they know that there will be someone else to get them out of their problems.
America was founded on July 4, 1776 by our forefathers, including some very noble leaders such as, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, James Monroe, and Benjamin Franklin. So much has changed historically since that time in America. We have survived the Civil War, World War 1, Pearl Harbor, World War 2, the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Leading all the way up to the most recent historical event, the first African American President, Barack Obama. These events that have happened in America’s past has made it and shaped it into the way it is today and the way that it will eventually become.
Mary Pfeiffer through her journalistic anecdotal advocacy: Crazy in America: The hidden tragedy of our criminalized mentally ill (2007), have opened the proverbial Pandora’s box, depending on what sector of the society moral judgment is aligned with. The tragedy
The choices you make not only affect you but they also affect the people around you. Making harsh decisions without think about the negative outcome can affect many people in many various ways. Erik Fisher makes many wrong choices that him and his family having to suffer the consequences for. Erik choices manly impact Paul by making him lose his vision, making his brother live in his shadow, and also making Paul him look in trustworthy in front of his peers.
Fate works in mysterious ways, everyone makes choices out of their own free will which affects their
How significant is my life? Do I make a difference? Do I even really matter? Many of us wonder about how important our lives actually are; most of us are, after all, born with the dream of making a difference with our lives. Sometimes it’s hard to see if we’ve really had an impact at all. But I’m here today to tell you just how incredible your very existence is to your friends, your family, and to all those you’ll meet personally. Specifically, I’ll be talking about the wonder of what’s simply called the “Butterfly Effect”, also known as The Law of Sensitive Dependence Upon Initial Conditions. It states simply that a butterfly can flap its wings and set molecules of air into motion, in turn moving more molecules or air – starting a chain
You will make decisions in your life. Some of these decisions will be incredibly good and result with you experiencing a much improved quality of life. Other decisions will be poor, yielding little benefit, or worse, cause more damage than good. Yes, whether it's right or wrong, it still is a