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January 17, 2012
Olivia Brown, Creative Corner Editor
This is a piece I wrote for my Comm. Arts class, it’s about what kind of person it takes to overcome hard times in life and those who cannot. It’s also about whether or not people deserve what they have to deal with and worry about in life.
The human life is full of decisions; to love or to hate, to give up or to move forward, to live or to die. Our life is like the human heart, when we’re threatened, we respond in one of two ways; we either run or we attack. There’s a scientific term for this, called “Fight, or Flight” It’s the difference between those who are defeated and those who carry on in times of suffrage and tragedy. The real question is, can we control whether we run into these decisions in our life or not.
The term “life-changing decisions” has no definite definition. Your life could change on whether you decide to sleep in an extra fifteen minutes and get to school late, your life could change by the decision you make to eat lunch or not today. Richard Bach once said, “All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don’t show the million decisions that led to that moment.” It is believed that each decision you make, even in the smallest form, leads up to making the biggest decisions of your life.
Captain John Ferrier was a Christian man, and lived by the “I’m third” life-style. He put God first, others second, and himself third. He was a member of the Minute Men pilots. During a routine show, on June 7, 1958, Ferrier’s plane started rolling, and he was spinning towards a small town. With plenty of time to bail out, Ferrier realizes he has two choices. He chooses to stay in the plane long enough to steer it away from the small town and take his own life in a small nearby lake. Captain John Ferrier lived a fair life and put himself last, there were no wrong decisions he could have made in his life to deserve to make one like this. Life may not give you your biggest life decisions based upon your small ones that led up to it.
In a world where people are unsure if they get what they deserve or if life just throws what it wants at you, we do know one thing; there’s a difference between those who give up, and those who continue on in hard times, in sad times, and in times where you just don’t know what to do. You cannot control what life serves you, but you can control how you deal with it. Our life is like the human heart, you just have to keep beating.
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