We all have had to make tough choices. Sometimes it is just to eat and other times it can be so much more. Like if you should pay the heating bill or buy food for your kids. I had a tough choice the other day. I had a tennis match scheduled for today. I also had a huge dress rehearsal scheduled for today also. Both ran over the same time slot. The tennis match was just a match right? Go to the dress rehearsal so you can perform in front of MANY people this Friday was the obvious choice. Well I learned that one of the varsity couldn't play and I was the next guy up. So I would take his spot. VARSITY, on a high school team as a 9th grader! My coach tried to convince me by saying he would give my spot to a worse guy whom I really really really dislike. However, I had made up my mind, I was going to dance. I got lucky today though, it snowed, and snowed hard. They HAD to cancel the match. I was in luck. I even got to talk to my coach, but apparently he was going to play a worse guy in that varsity spot because he "promised" it to him. Obviously he was trying to get me upset for skipping tennis for dance. That seems immature to me and I might not even go out for tennis next year because they do have a ballroom dance club thingie that I would like to do. Maybe if my coach had not been so rude and manipulative I wouldn't make that decision, but unless something changes, I am most likely not going to be on the tennis team next year where I would be varsity for sure. Tough decisions, but I have made mine, dance over tennis.
If you had to make a tough decision such as do you pay a heating bill in winter to keep your heat or buy shoes for your kid, what would you choose? These choices have to be made everyday. Someone has to make them. It is amazing how our mind weighs our choices. We have to put a value to everything. Using these values we have to then rank them. It is sad when the choice comes down to two things we really need, such as heating and food or even clothes. Some how we have to come out with a decision.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Missed Chances and Sacrifices
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I can see your coaches side too though. The other kid was sticking there by the teams side the entire time, when you left them for a dance. I can see your point too though. *shrug*
I know what you mean. Sometimes people just but you in the middle of things and you have do decided when you rather have someone else make that choice FOR YOU. Depressing most of the time but when we decided its usually the right choice.
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