Choose a situation where you struggled to make a decision.
Describe the situation in detail and why you were unable to do it (at least at first). Focus on the lesson(s) you learned.
Posted by Davis on Tuesday, November 29, 2005 at 12:51 PM |Permalink
I am currently in a situation that leaves me still stuck trying to decide what to do. I want to get into the music business. I treat my room like a recording studio (besides the mess) and I love experimenting, making, playing with sound and recordig equipment and music in general. I want to get more music tools to hook up to my computer so I can experiment, play, and produce more, but the stuff I want to get is really expensive, and depending on what I do next year for college, I may or may not be able to afford it. Besides that, my parents seem to really want me to get a "real" job per se. And I can see their point. Unless I make it big, my chances of even paying rent are crud because of the way the music industry is set up these days. At the same time, I really don't want to do what my dad did, and get myself stuck in a job that I don't even like, doing the same kind of thing for twenty years and never getting a chance to do what I really want. Music is not just a hobby, it's a passion and an important part of me. The hard thing about choosing a career to build my life around is that I haven't been endowed with any magical foresight. I don't know the future and I don't have a roadmap to tell me what direction I'll end up in if I start down a certain path. It's tricky.
Day to day i stuggle to put others before myself. On ocasion when i do, the felling of well being out weighs whatever reaction i would have had to whatever i would have done for myself by far. I try to remember this as i act everyday knowing maybe even for me it may be good to put others first.
One decision that i found hard to make was to quit baseball and continue to destroy my arm. I was ripping apart ligaments in my throwing elbow and it was because of baseball. I had been playing for 13 years and now i had lost what i loved. It was a good decision to quit because i didnt have to have surgery and i still play football a sport i love.
I have been playing softball for twelve years and I love the sport. However, when I was younger, I had to decide whether I should become a pithcer or a catcher. I enjoyed playing both positions during a game and I just did not know which one I should seriously pursue. I kept thinking that if I chose one over the other I would end up regreting it down the road. After some time, however, I decided to concentrate on pitching and I love doing it. Of course, I still wonder what it would have been like if I had chose to be a catcher.
A situation that i was in and just wanted to give up was when i first started motocross, i could never get the courage to go fast with the fear of falling down, as the weeks passed and the more attempts at riding i had the better i got. I have been doing it for about 5 years now and love it to death if i were to quit right then and there i would have never been able to enjoy the feeling that motocross brings to me.
i was in a situation where i had to make a decision this past fall. ive played basketball ever since i was a little kid. yet each year i played it seemed like i started disliking the game more and more each year. so when it came to me choosing this year i told the coach i wasnt playing. i realized i didnt appricaite the game as much any more.
Chemistry is the biggest situtation I am stuggling with right now. I have no idea what is going on. I must pass this class but first I have to learn how quantum mechanics works and something about the spin of an electron?
A situation that i have gone through in my life that i was unable to do somthing would be haveing to decide wether to stick with snowboarding or not. when i first tired it i hated it. i wanted to quit so bad and almost did. but i decited that i would stick with it and finally became a better boarder.
I find the college decision a hard one to make. I have been accepted to CU and University of Wyoming already. I am leaning towards CU by a lot now for many reasons. However, for some reason I have a strong sense that keeps bringing me back to Wyoming. I have to go through and compare again the pros and cons of each. My parents are happy with both schools, even though UWYO is suprisingly cheaper. I want to help them out with college payments, but at the same time I feel CU is a better fit for me now. I've decided my enjoyment will make the experience more worthwhile, so for now that is my decision.
The greatest struggle man can endure is not the fight of his morals, beliefs, or even his fight for or against god. Throughout time the epic struggle for mankind has been the struggle against itself, creating limits and molding one's life into the epitome of their God, be it Christianity, Muslim or even the endeavor to combat one's own ambitions. Everyones life is a constant battle to discover themselves and every choice one makes redefines their every action, and emotion.
One hard decision I had to make this year was to either go to the Arapahoe vs Heritage football game or run a cross country meet. I looked at all of the pro's and con's of both. The pros of going to the football game was that I could hang out with all my friends and have a good time. I also wanted to go because it was my last Arapahoe vs. Heritage that i could ever attend. Although the football game would have been more exciting I choose to go to the cross country meet because I had already told the coaches I could run it and i didn't want to let anyone down. It turns out it was one of my best meets and i got to become one of the cross country captions because I ran so well at it. In the end I was happy with my decision even though at the time being the football game would have been more fun to go to i recieved a reward that i am proud of with choosing to go to the meet instead.
Last summer, my cousin was having his Bar Mitzvah. And also, the ACT that I signed up for happened to be on the same day as my cousin’s Bar Mitzvah. I had to decide whether to respect my cousin and go to his party, or improve my college chances by retaking the ACT. If I go to the party, will I regret it if I don’t get into the college I want? Or will I get in to the college I want and feel guilty about not going to my cousin’s Bar Mitzvah? I decided to go to my cousin’s party due to a lot of pressure from my dad. Im not sure if im going to regret my decision yet.
I am actually in a situation like that right now. i have been offerd a full ride schlarship to polay footbal at UNC but there are still alot of schools that are interested in me and would like me to come visit thier schools. to be honest i dont know which school i want to go to yet. this is a big life changing for me and i really have to consider my options. at least i have solved how i am going to pay for colege.
Hamlet is a crazy storie that actually uses all good movie techniques. It keeps you guessing of whats to come next and most of all keeps you fro forgeting what has happend in the past because of the plot. The wording like all shakespeare is terrible and hard to understand but thats just the way it is. Personally i like the story but wish that the movie was in our language compared to his.
There has been many times in life that i have struggled to make a decision. This is because i dont know what situations I am getting myslef into it. Once when i got my ticket i knew that i had made the wrong decision and got myself into that trouble.
My brother and I were snowboarding a very hard run when I suddenly realized that he was gone. I wasn’t sure if he had slowed down or fallen or gone ahead. He usually stayed right with me so this was very odd for him to be out of sight especially on such a difficult run. I decided to sit and wait for him at the next fork in the run where I knew he would have to pass eventually. Waiting seemed the better choice because it was more likely he fell behind than if he went ahead without me seeing him. I sat and waited for almost twenty minutes when I finally saw him going down. I caught up with him and we went to the bottom of the run.
A recent problem of mine is college. I need a college that has my needs for soccer. I also need a college that is affordable and where I can get a big scholarship to play. I also want to play at a Division 1 school but will accept Division 2 if nothing else is possible. It is not a real bad problem but one that stresses me out often and one in which I really want to know where I am going to attend college. There are also smaller parts of it such as if I will play as a freshman and if the style of play suits me well. It is all very complicated but a problem none the less.
College. There are so many options. My parents think that going to a university and having the "college experience" would be good for me since they also experienced it. But on another hand, If I was to attend metro I would be able to keep my job and eventually earn enough money to move to my own place while still in college. I really want to become an elementary teacher but it's hard deciding what kind of lifestyle I want in college.
I am currently in a situation that leaves me still stuck trying to decide what to do. I want to get into the music business. I treat my room like a recording studio (besides the mess) and I love experimenting, making, playing with sound and recordig equipment and music in general. I want to get more music tools to hook up to my computer so I can experiment, play, and produce more, but the stuff I want to get is really expensive, and depending on what I do next year for college, I may or may not be able to afford it. Besides that, my parents seem to really want me to get a "real" job per se. And I can see their point. Unless I make it big, my chances of even paying rent are crud because of the way the music industry is set up these days. At the same time, I really don't want to do what my dad did, and get myself stuck in a job that I don't even like, doing the same kind of thing for twenty years and never getting a chance to do what I really want. Music is not just a hobby, it's a passion and an important part of me.
The hard thing about choosing a career to build my life around is that I haven't been endowed with any magical foresight. I don't know the future and I don't have a roadmap to tell me what direction I'll end up in if I start down a certain path. It's tricky.
Posted by
chrism |
10:48 PM
Day to day i stuggle to put others before myself. On ocasion when i do, the felling of well being out weighs whatever reaction i would have had to whatever i would have done for myself by far. I try to remember this as i act everyday knowing maybe even for me it may be good to put others first.
Posted by
kirk |
6:39 PM
One decision that i found hard to make was to quit baseball and continue to destroy my arm. I was ripping apart ligaments in my throwing elbow and it was because of baseball. I had been playing for 13 years and now i had lost what i loved. It was a good decision to quit because i didnt have to have surgery and i still play football a sport i love.
Posted by
Anonymous |
8:22 PM
I have been playing softball for twelve years and I love the sport. However, when I was younger, I had to decide whether I should become a pithcer or a catcher. I enjoyed playing both positions during a game and I just did not know which one I should seriously pursue. I kept thinking that if I chose one over the other I would end up regreting it down the road. After some time, however, I decided to concentrate on pitching and I love doing it. Of course, I still wonder what it would have been like if I had chose to be a catcher.
Posted by
Anonymous |
5:05 PM
A situation that i was in and just wanted to give up was when i first started motocross, i could never get the courage to go fast with the fear of falling down, as the weeks passed and the more attempts at riding i had the better i got. I have been doing it for about 5 years now and love it to death if i were to quit right then and there i would have never been able to enjoy the feeling that motocross brings to me.
Posted by
Anonymous |
7:29 PM
i was in a situation where i had to make a decision this past fall. ive played basketball ever since i was a little kid. yet each year i played it seemed like i started disliking the game more and more each year. so when it came to me choosing this year i told the coach i wasnt playing. i realized i didnt appricaite the game as much any more.
Posted by
Anonymous |
8:43 PM
Chemistry is the biggest situtation I am stuggling with right now. I have no idea what is going on. I must pass this class but first I have to learn how quantum mechanics works and something about the spin of an electron?
Posted by
Anonymous |
8:50 PM
A situation that i have gone through in my life that i was unable to do somthing would be haveing to decide wether to stick with snowboarding or not. when i first tired it i hated it. i wanted to quit so bad and almost did. but i decited that i would stick with it and finally became a better boarder.
Posted by
Anonymous |
10:04 AM
I find the college decision a hard one to make. I have been accepted to CU and University of Wyoming already. I am leaning towards CU by a lot now for many reasons. However, for some reason I have a strong sense that keeps bringing me back to Wyoming. I have to go through and compare again the pros and cons of each. My parents are happy with both schools, even though UWYO is suprisingly cheaper. I want to help them out with college payments, but at the same time I feel CU is a better fit for me now. I've decided my enjoyment will make the experience more worthwhile, so for now that is my decision.
Posted by
Jared Bloch |
3:05 PM
The greatest struggle man can endure is not the fight of his morals, beliefs, or even his fight for or against god. Throughout time the epic struggle for mankind has been the struggle against itself, creating limits and molding one's life into the epitome of their God, be it Christianity, Muslim or even the endeavor to combat one's own ambitions. Everyones life is a constant battle to discover themselves and every choice one makes redefines their every action, and emotion.
Posted by
EricF |
3:22 PM
One hard decision I had to make this year was to either go to the Arapahoe vs Heritage football game or run a cross country meet. I looked at all of the pro's and con's of both. The pros of going to the football game was that I could hang out with all my friends and have a good time. I also wanted to go because it was my last Arapahoe vs. Heritage that i could ever attend. Although the football game would have been more exciting I choose to go to the cross country meet because I had already told the coaches I could run it and i didn't want to let anyone down. It turns out it was one of my best meets and i got to become one of the cross country captions because I ran so well at it. In the end I was happy with my decision even though at the time being the football game would have been more fun to go to i recieved a reward that i am proud of with choosing to go to the meet instead.
Posted by
Anonymous |
3:46 PM
Last summer, my cousin was having his Bar Mitzvah. And also, the ACT that I signed up for happened to be on the same day as my cousin’s Bar Mitzvah. I had to decide whether to respect my cousin and go to his party, or improve my college chances by retaking the ACT. If I go to the party, will I regret it if I don’t get into the college I want? Or will I get in to the college I want and feel guilty about not going to my cousin’s Bar Mitzvah? I decided to go to my cousin’s party due to a lot of pressure from my dad. Im not sure if im going to regret my decision yet.
Posted by
Anonymous |
3:54 PM
I am actually in a situation like that right now. i have been offerd a full ride schlarship to polay footbal at UNC but there are still alot of schools that are interested in me and would like me to come visit thier schools. to be honest i dont know which school i want to go to yet. this is a big life changing for me and i really have to consider my options. at least i have solved how i am going to pay for colege.
Posted by
Anonymous |
6:46 AM
Hamlet is a crazy storie that actually uses all good movie techniques. It keeps you guessing of whats to come next and most of all keeps you fro forgeting what has happend in the past because of the plot. The wording like all shakespeare is terrible and hard to understand but thats just the way it is. Personally i like the story but wish that the movie was in our language compared to his.
Posted by
Anonymous |
7:34 AM
There has been many times in life that i have struggled to make a decision. This is because i dont know what situations I am getting myslef into it. Once when i got my ticket i knew that i had made the wrong decision and got myself into that trouble.
Posted by
Anonymous |
7:39 AM
My brother and I were snowboarding a very hard run when I suddenly realized that he was gone. I wasn’t sure if he had slowed down or fallen or gone ahead. He usually stayed right with me so this was very odd for him to be out of sight especially on such a difficult run. I decided to sit and wait for him at the next fork in the run where I knew he would have to pass eventually. Waiting seemed the better choice because it was more likely he fell behind than if he went ahead without me seeing him. I sat and waited for almost twenty minutes when I finally saw him going down. I caught up with him and we went to the bottom of the run.
Posted by
NathanK |
11:33 AM
A recent problem of mine is college. I need a college that has my needs for soccer. I also need a college that is affordable and where I can get a big scholarship to play. I also want to play at a Division 1 school but will accept Division 2 if nothing else is possible. It is not a real bad problem but one that stresses me out often and one in which I really want to know where I am going to attend college. There are also smaller parts of it such as if I will play as a freshman and if the style of play suits me well. It is all very complicated but a problem none the less.
Posted by
Anonymous |
7:44 PM
College. There are so many options. My parents think that going to a university and having the "college experience" would be good for me since they also experienced it. But on another hand, If I was to attend metro I would be able to keep my job and eventually earn enough money to move to my own place while still in college. I really want to become an elementary teacher but it's hard deciding what kind of lifestyle I want in college.
Posted by
Anonymous |
12:36 PM