Throughout the past eighteen years, I have been faced with all kinds of decisions. What I learned at a young age is every decision I make, will impact my life. There have been times when I made a decision that affected my life in negative ways. This made me feel like I was a complete failure. That I could have done everything differently. More importantly, what could I have done to not be in this position. I felt as if I was letting people down. I consider myself very lucky to be blessed with what I have, and I thank my parents for that. Whenever I end up making a wrong decision, I feel as if I have especially let them down. My parents are the most important thing to me, so feeling any negativity toward them at all, makes me unhappy. Everyday I try to please my parents as best I can, but I accept that there will be days I don't. Making wrong choices is an important part of growing up, you learn respect, trust, and responsibility.
In True Notebooks, a new character is introduced, Patrick. I think he is trying to become a better person by filling himself with knowledge, by taking the creative writing class. I think Patrick knows he has has what it takes, and is capable of developing into a stronger, better person. Dealing with consequences, is the main focus of a bad decision. Usually, these consequences teach you not to make that mistake again. One positive aspect of making a bad decision is learning from your mistake. In True Notebooks, I think the children are realizing what they have done, and what they have to do to begin a new life. Even though they may have never been taught what is right and what is wrong, they have no choice but to figure it out on their own. Mark demonstrates that each child in the correctional facility has potential, its just their matter of achieving it.
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