Making the Right Choice

       As humans, we all make mistakes. It’s an unavoidable thing that happens to the best of us. For example, the best sports player could not be as good as they are if they didn’t make some mistakes along the way to stardom. But there is a difference between learning from your mistakes and not. Because if you do not change your approach you will keep making the same mistakes over and over; For example, if you are a singer and you sing something wrong and keep doing it wrong, it trains your brain to do that, and it takes much more time to fix it. Because I have made some mistakes that took me years to rectify because I just kept on making those same mistakes.

       Mistakes happen everyday, it is unavoidable and I have made many mistakes in my life, some worse than others. For now, I will talk about a smaller error I made; when I was in elementary school, a friend of mine and I were at recess, we were having a snowball fight and I accidentally hit one of my peers. At first I hadn’t been sure what had happened, but when they started crying that’s when I realized that the snowball I had missed my friend with hit the other kid.

Shortly after that, the teacher came over to see what had happened, the first thoughts that came to my mind were how I could get out of this situation. There were several excuses that I could have used to get out of that situation: I could lie about and say that my friend threw the snowball, or I could say that some snow had fallen from the tree that was above the other kid. My main thought was how I could avoid getting into trouble. But then I thought about how much more trouble I would be in if I lied about what happened because even if I did not get in trouble initially I would still be in trouble if I lied.

       But then I started thinking about how it would be worse if I lied. Ultimately, in the end, I told the truth and admitted to my error. I did not get in trouble and, although it was my first impression and a pretty bad one at that the other kid forgave me and in the end we (the other kid and I) actually laughed it over. I ended up making a new friend that day.

From that mistake I learned that honesty really is the best policy because if I hadn’t admitted to throwing the snowball both my friend and I would have been in trouble. So I not only avoided trouble but gained a friend that has lasted throughout these past years, in fact we are still friends to this day. So at the end of the day it pays of to be honest.