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Making Good Choices
Sequoria Johnson
February 07, 2012
MAKING GOOD CHOICES
My choices have put me in many bad predicaments and this one is by far my biggest lesson that I had to learn. I am a very smart young woman sometimes I just let certain things get the best of my personality. Making good choices is about thinking about the things that you are about to do before you do it. Choices that we make can either be good or bad. There are many things that affect the choices that we make, and one factor that plays into the choices that we make is peer pressure. Peer pressure is the affect that your friends have on you to take an action that you earlier had not planned on.
I was only thinking of myself until I got in trouble. I am not a bad young woman at the moment I was just making bad choices. I would like to start making better choices like doing better in school and get a job. I would like to one day be a manager of a hair salon and I know that by stealing that will only slow me down. By making better choices I am studying more and trying to do better in my classes so that I can graduate on time and continue on my path.
Many times people are forced to live with choices that they have made during their life time. Many times people have regrets for the choices that they have made and those regrets haunt them through their whole life. When making a decision we thing of the consequences that we will face as a result of that decision. Often times some decisions cannot be taken back. Regrets may destroy a person’s life as that think of the past and cannot change what is already done. Thus far, my biggest regret is stealing out of walmart and I am determined to make a change to better my life.
Is making good choices important in life? It is as much as important as you make it. You make choices everyday in your life and one way or another they will determine the outcome of your future or consequences. Everyone has made good choices but also has made bad choices. Some that they are not

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