Personal Narrative: Choosing Happy

Choosing “Happy”
Everyone has made decisions that they are not very proud of and sometimes we do not even realize that our decisions are not good ones. An ethical dilemma is when someone is faced with two choices, neither of which have particularly good outcomes. I have been faced with many ethical dilemmas in my life and one of them was when I had to choose between my own self-worth or not being with someone that I believed was good for me at the time. I chose what I thought would make me the happiest in the end. I learned that not everything ends exactly how you expect it to.
I was a freshman in high school, I barely knew anyone besides the people in my grade. Like any other freshman, I jumped at the opportunity to talk to an upperclassman. …show more content…
I did not think much of us, I figured that I was just another girl to mess with, then one day he asked me to go and see a movie with him and I told him that I wanted to. I asked my mom if I could go and her immediate response was no. She told me that there were no good intentions there and I just could not understand why. I thought that I could control any situation if it got bad because I had never been in a bad situation. The fight lasted a couple days and I continued to talk to him further. I remember the first night that he ever talked to me, it was a basketball game and the theme was pajamas. I had walked past him and his friends with one of my friends and as soon as we had gone way past him I heard him yell my name and I turned around and saw him coming to talk to me. He gave me a hug and asked what was up, and then I told him I had to go to the bathroom and that was the end of the conversation. After that, we continued to talk to each other and we only really saw each other at basketball games, until one night when my parents were out of town and I was staying at a friend’s house that I left her house and went and hung out with him. I started to give