 As you begin your new unit about choices and decisions, reflect upon a time in which you were faced with difficult choices and had to make the tough or unpopular decision.
Write about the reflection providing detail and critical thinking. For this discussion, you will need to respond to two (2) other students' posts.
Cristina
11/3/2013 08:52:24 am
It is always hard to make the right choice no matter what age you are or what point you are at in life. I was a competitive swimmer for fourteen years and I always had the choice of either going to practice on a Friday night or going to the football games. Maybe my friends wanted to sleep over on Friday and then I would have to choose between that and early morning practice on Saturday. I was always faced with a choice and I always chose swimming. But ever since I was a kid I've wanted to be on stage. Everywhere I went people would tell me how wonderful they think I would be in a play because I am such an animated person. My brother did theatre for Liberty and I was so jealous because I wanted to be up there. Last year I did both swimming and theatre and my swimming was effected by it. I was not able to make practices and I had to leave early from swimming sometimes. So at the beginning of my senior year I made the choice to quit swimming so that I could do theatre. This was not an easy choice but I believe it was the right one. Combined with the fact that I loved doing the spring musical is the fact that I have a major back problem. I would have been the district champion in the 100 yard breaststroke if not for this problem. So that was the difficult choice I made
Tori
11/7/2013 05:17:14 am
I can definitely relate to your post because as I posted in my original blog I was almost faced with the same decision. I know how hard it is to really love doing two things and just not really have an idea which you would rather be doing. Like you said it was between going to practice on a friday night or going to the football games. Such as in my life now, its between going to cheering competitions or missing my friends birthday and or some other special event. When I was younger I thought I would stick to softball my whole life but after a while I realized I would rather be cheering just as you did with choosing theater.
Jess
11/8/2013 05:37:21 am
I think you made the right decision. Knowing you had a back problem, it is good that you decided to start something knew before possibly hurting your back even more. Many athletes get hurt but not all of them can find the passion for something else. Being that you wanted to be on stage since you were a kid it seems like it worked out perfectly. I'm sure swimming has taught you many things that will stick with you throughout your whole life and maybe one day you will even be able to do it again. Until then, keep it up with theatre and enjoy every moment of it!
Logan
11/8/2013 06:23:40 am
That must have been a very hard decision to make. I know that for many high school athletes by the time senior year comes, they aren't very motivated. If one has no interest in pursuing the sport in college, he or she does not want to dedicate as much time from his or her senior year. I think that you made a great decision despite what people could have said about it. Teenagers can be mean, so it is great that you made the decision based on yourself instead of others.
Tori
11/4/2013 05:39:31 am
There have been plenty of times in my life where I had to make difficult decisions. When I was younger I played both softball and I participated in cheerleading. The two sports never effected each other, practices for both teams were scheduled on different days and the busiest parts of the year for each sport were different. Softball season was more spring into summer and cheerleading competitions were scheduled for over winter. I participated in both of those sports from 4th-8th grade. However, when high school came around I was informed that I wouldn't be able to do both sports anymore because the scheduling would interfere with one another. I had the whole summer to think about my decision and I wish I had people to help me but I heard different things from everyone. I had to look at the positives and negatives of picking each sport. I took until the last minute of summer till I finally chose to do cheering in Freedom. I had positive outlooks on my decision through the whole time I cheered at Freedom however sometimes I wonder what would be different about my life if I stuck to softball back in the 9th grade.
Jess
11/8/2013 05:31:46 am
This is pretty much the same thing that happened to me with dance and cheering. Freedom Cheering is different from when we were in Bulldogs so I also had to figure out how to manage my time. Instead of choosing cheering I chose dance. I wonder too how my life would've been different if I had chosen cheerleading like you did instead of dance. Doing two sports is just too much at once when you get into high school. I think you chose the right thing though because you are such a great cheerleader!
Steven
11/5/2013 03:44:43 am
Throughout my life I have had the opportunity to make minor decisions here or there but the first major decision that I ever had to make was deciding what I wanted to do with my life. Going back to my childhood, I wanted to be an engineer (not a professional athlete or president like every other normal kid) because I loved to work with numbers. This was until I found out that letters were included in this thing called math. When high school started I seemed to be in and out of the hospital a lot and realized that I liked knowing what was going on with my body and took an interest in the medical field. It wasn't until the end of my junior year when I was really being hounded with the question "what do you want to be when you grow up?" I thought that I knew that medicine was something that was for me. Someone then asked me what I was good at, and what I enjoyed doing. I told them that I loved to be a leader and set up the way people are to go about business. They told me to go and look into business administration. I did just that. Everything about jobs that go with that seemed to be perfect to my skills and interests. I then had to choose what my major was going to be. I chose business administration. lt seems to be something that I can go in and be who I am and use every skill that I have been given. Hopefully I can succeed in my future with the decision that I made.
Tori
11/7/2013 05:12:35 am
I can really relate to this response because I was faced with the same decision basically last year. When I was younger I had that typical thought of wanting to be famous when I grew up, however my thoughts definitely changed over the years. For the longest time I wanted to be a teacher for younger grades (elementary) because I always enjoyed working with children. However acknowledging the fact that its incredibly hard to get a job as a teacher for basic classes and especially with younger children I was faced with a big decision. If I wasn't going to teach english for example to younger children what was I going to do? My heart has been set on teaching for years now but I just had to figure out what subject I would focus on. It wasn't until late last year I realized I wanted to move on with my life and become a teacher somewhere in the science fields.
Sam
11/7/2013 12:28:35 pm
While I was reading this, I was thinking about my plans for college majors. I'm still not sure. I think I want to study philosophy. There seems to be a growing job market in the philosophy industry, especially if I write a book.
Jess
11/5/2013 06:30:49 am
For as long as I can remember, I have spent long, hard hours at my dance studio. Dance has become a part of me and it is something that I will definitely never regret doing. However, at many points in my life I’ve faced the challenge of having to narrow down taking as many dance classes as I would’ve liked to have taken. Dance is an expensive, time consuming, and stressful activity of which my parents and I have had to make many sacrifices in order for me to continue with my passion. At one point I had to choose between dance and cheerleading. I had cheered for 7 years and had accomplished many awards in cheerleading. I just could not juggle cheerleading, dance, school, friends, and family. It was too much and I had made the tough decision of quitting cheerleading to focus more on dance. Looking back I am more than happy I decided to do that. Since then, I have spent many more hours focusing on dance and it has paid off. I couldn’t be any more grateful to have the opportunity to be where I am today in dance and hope dancing will stick with me all throughout my life. Although I gave up cheerleading and I can never know where I could’ve been if I had stuck with it, I know that everything happens for a reason. Surprisingly, I never regret my decision either. I look back and remember the good times I had as a kid with cheerleading but couldn’t ever imagine my life without dance.
Cristina
11/5/2013 01:06:55 pm
Jess,
Logan
11/8/2013 06:30:53 am
I admire your decision deciding what to cut from your life. When you have to majorly important activities, it can be very hard to have to decide between them. It is very important to keep yourself at a regular level of stress and not overextend yourself past feasibility. Cutting out cheering must have been a very hard decision and I applaud your personal strength in doing so.
Steven
11/8/2013 06:32:31 am
I am glad that you found the balance in your life that you were looking for as far as your life. Cheerleading seemed to have been a good part of your life and dropping it must have been a hard choice to make. I know as far as my personal life goes, my sister has had the difficult decision of dropping an activity that she has been a part of her whole life. She has become too busy and it has begun to affect not only my life but my parents as well, putting the difficult decision on her to make. I enjoy being able to relate to a post every so often because it is rare.
Sam
11/5/2013 07:42:31 am
I have never really been faced with a difficult decision. It's a little bit difficult to comment on my most difficult decision when my parents have controlled almost every major decision in my life up until this point. Maybe I could comment on which college I've committed to or which major I plan on pursuing a career in, but I haven't even reached a verdict on either of those yet. The most difficult decision I've made was choosing which colleges I'd like to apply to. Even then, it was not very difficult, and I did not need to go against popular opinion. I simply saw a school,I liked and applied. It was not challenging or difficult. It was just a major decision I had to make.
Steven
11/8/2013 06:22:22 am
Based off of your blog post, I hope that you can make these important life decisions and fast. We will be adults in only a few months and having the ability to make your own decisions is essential to surviving in today's day and age. We need the ability to choose on important things for ourselves such as what college we want to go to and what major we want to pursue. On top of that, where we want to live when we are older and other large things that come along later in life.
Samantha
11/8/2013 07:11:53 am
I agree with your statement that parents have controlled most of our major decisions. I had a hard time thinking of a difficult decision when writing this blog post. So at this point in our lives, have we truly made a difficult decision? I think choosing the colleges we want to apply to and the major we would like to study were the very first decisions we made on our own. Even these decisions could be influenced by friends, family, teachers, etc. At the same time, I do not believe choosing colleges and a major were all that difficult. They were more of "follow your heart" decisions.
Samantha
11/5/2013 10:29:29 am
As you begin your new unit about choices and decisions, reflect upon a time in which you were faced with difficult choices and had to make the tough or unpopular decision.
Cristina
11/5/2013 12:56:42 pm
Samantha,
Logan
11/6/2013 08:28:47 am
Life is full of difficult choices, and it is our responsibility to make them. During my time at Wegmans as a manager in the veggie market, I had to make decisions based on the bests interests of not only me, but the customers and company as well. For example, the shelves ran low on veggies, but I hadn't chilled them for the designated amount of time required by the company. I had to make the choice of just putting them out to satisfy a customer or chilling them for four hours like company policy says, therefore making the product unavailable to customers. If you haven't worked in customer service before, it would be difficult to understand why this is such a hard choice. Think of an angry, tired mother that wanted to get a pack of brussel sprouts for dinner, but you denied her them because they were not properly chilled (and therefore unsafe to consume). Now, imagine people exactly like this coming up to you every five minutes for four hours. The easy choice would be to put them out, but I had to take the yelling and dissatisfaction for the rest of the day.
Sam
11/7/2013 12:25:04 pm
Why can't the mother just buy broccoli or spinach? If she's that distressed, I don't think she'd make it a point to get the exact vegetable she had in mind. Any healthy vegetable would probably satisfy her need to feed her kids a healthy, balanced dinner.
Samantha
11/8/2013 07:34:01 am
Although your decision may not seem so "difficult", I can see why you chose to share it. You had to choose between making customers happy or potentially losing your job. You persevered through each encounter with an angry customer. They may have been angry, but they did not know that you were only helping them. If you had complied with their needs, you would have provided non consumable foods. I believe you did the right thing in this case. Comments are closed.
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