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ChoiceChoices that I make are usually based on the consequences that I predict. If I have a list of choices I usually tend to think about what good can come from it and what bad can come from it. If the choice benefits me more than it deters me, then I usually will make that choice. I believe that everybody makes choices based on what they want out of the situation. Sometimes the outcome of a decision can be bad but that doesn't necessarily mean that it was a bad choice. I believe that "bad choices" are only bad choices when the outcome doesn't go the way one wants it to go. I've made plenty of choices that have resulted in good things and plenty that have resulted in bad things. Although this may be true I don't believe that anything I chose or chose to do was bad, I just believe the outcome didn't go the way I planned or wanted it to go. If everybody could have things go their way, then there wouldn't be a such thing as a "bad choice". In "The Road Not Taken," by Robert Frost, choices are very important. The main character, comes to a fork in the road where he has to make a choice between the two paths. The decision was so significant to his travels that he takes a whole day to make the decision. In the end the traveler decides to take the second road. He comes to this conclusion because he takes the path that fewer people chose before. In this case, his decision wasn't based on the consequences, it was based on how everyone else made their choice. In the short story, "Dead End" by Rudolfo Anaya, a young girl named Maria wants to be apart of the "in-crowd" while still keeping a promise to her deceased mother. The promise she made was to not turn out like the other kids and to make something out of her life by going to school and getting a successful job. Maria is faced with a hard decision because she dearly wants to be like the other kids and hang out and be free but feels like she's bound to taking care of her younger siblings and being diligent in school. She has a crush on a boy named Frankie who is apart of the "in-crowd". Frankie makes an attempt to break her free of her innocent lifestyle and invites her to take a ride with him. Although she wanted to do all the things that Frankie and his friends did (smoke weed, have sex, drink alcohol) she remembers the story her mother used to tell her about La Llorona. This is a legend/folktale about a women who drowned her baby because her husband left her. Now all she does is weep by the lake looking for her child. Maria related her decision to the decision that the woman in the story made. The legend impacted her decision because Maria felt like if she took on this lifestyle now, she didn't want to regret it later in life. There is a huge connection to happiness and choices. We as people make choices based on if the outcome will make ourselves happy or someone else happy. Having choices is a good thing to have but having too many choices can be bad because it leaves more opportunity for a "bad choice". I believe that I am a maximizer most of the times and a satisficer when I'm faced with choices that I'm not fond of. Having regret can make the choice that you made that much more worse because you will always wonder "what if I did the total opposite". Adapting to a choice I believe is the best thing to do after making a bad decision because you have to accept it and realize that you can't re-do anything. I think we all have high expectations when faced with a choice but setting that expectation too high make the outcome worse if it doesn't come out the way you originally wanted it to.
This cartoon is actually self explanatory because there are so many different choices that the traveler can choose from. He comes to a sign on his travels that has many arrows pointing in different directions. He has to make a decision on which way to go to get to his destination if he chooses the wrong one he could end up lost or even put himself in harms way. All of these things apply to how I make a decision every day. I try to make the best decision possible when faced with multiple choices. If the outcome doesn't come out the way I would have liked it to be, then so be it. There is nothing you can do after making a choice. I do not believe in bad choices because we don't insist on choosing something that's bad, sometimes things just don't turn out the way you want it to be.
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