Hardest Decision I Ever Made Essay

My mind went blank. I did not know what to do. It was as if my whole world was coming down on me at once, and I could not get help. My perfect little family, to everyone else, has been falling off a cliff and now has finally crashed to the ground. The true problems that were hidden to others for years were finally being broadcasted for everyone to see. Overcoming that obstacle was the hardest thing that I have ever had to do in my entire life. Since my parent’s separation, I have become a more…

use our independence to make decisions whether big or small. I am lucky enough that my parents give me a large amount of independence and let me make my own choices. They realize that soon enough I will be making most of them on my own. Last year around this time I choose to stop playing high school basketball. This was a choice that I made without the help of anyone else. I made this decision because it was what I wanted and asserted my independence to make it. If I left this choice to my…

“To be great is to be misunderstood,” from Emerson, but I believe that this aphorism is a perfect description of every great person who ever lived because every person worth knowing or learning about has been judged by others without deserving it. I have experienced this first hand within the past year of my life. While I know I’m not the greatest athlete in the world, I consider myself to be one of the top athletes in the school. When I decided to join the football team there were many people…

I wish I could tell a story of me as a little girl, and the person who changed my life and made me want to become a nurse. I can’t though, because this never happened to me. At age 15, when I decided to become a CNA, I was taking a leap of faith, knowing that not only would it not be easy, but it could end up being something I hated. Luckily, not only was this not the case, it was the best decision I have ever made in my life, and it has made me more determined than ever to become a professional…

any decision-making due to the belief that women lack intelligence. During the 1930’s Dust Bowl, this patriarchal ideology was slightly challenged by feminism, the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men. In John Steinbeck’s novel, “The Grapes of Wrath,” feminism, a then very modern subject, is revealed throughout Ma’s transformation from a…

Michelle says, "When I was 15-years-old, I got pregnant. The decision to place this baby up for adoption was not an easy one. But it was the right one." Michelle was very young when she had to make this decision and it obviously shaped her entire life.…

Machiavelli once asked if it was better for a leader to be loved or feared. In a school or community setting, no leader should be feared, and being loved may be an exaggeration, but I interpret Machiavelli’s wisdom as the issue of whether to please the people or do what you believe to be right. Sometimes a leader's decisions can satisfy both sides, but in other cases, the best course of action may make some--if…

21st, 2013 I made close to the worst decision ever. I was talked into jumping off the Grand Haven Pier into Lake Michigan, and I ended up with a severely fractured right heel. The quote above is from my surgical notes in…

purpose. In Genesis 12:1, God simply said to Abraham, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s house to the land I will show you.” Abraham didn’t have to obey God and could easily stayed where he lived. However, he listened, and God decided to use him and his people. In Genesis 12:2, God said to Abraham, “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great and you will be blessing.” Especially in the Old Testament, the pattern is God usually…

never in my plan. When I first met my “forever” I was only 13, and here it is 6 years later and my “forever” will never exist again. Beginning as friends, I never wanted more because the bond was so rare. It was something I never felt before, and hoped to never feel again. Surprisingly, I decided to take a chance… in hopes that it will be worth it. However, I found out it may have been the worst decision I’ve ever made. When…