Choices_Year_10_Feature_Article

How Choices Affect Your Future the Bad and the Good. Life is like an intersection with many pathways to take, the path we take leads us to different challenges and obstacles along our journey. The choices and decisions that we make during our path of maturing are destinations for our future. Each choice leads to a consequence. We are making choices all the time so we must learn to make responsible decisions since they will be affecting our lives in a negative or positive way. Most teenagers that make a bad choice they get something broken, they screw up in class, hurt somebody’s feeling, get sent to the principal’s office or get grounded. Then there are kids that make a bad choice then somebody gets shot in the parking lot. Anthony a 23 year old, who’s got a rap sheet of a season criminal at the age of 20, says it’s all about the choices you make while you’re still growing up. Anthony was born in Monich to a single Malaysian mother. Like many new immigrants she comes to Monich for the cheap affordable housing. She works long hours at minimum waged jobs and was rarely home and it wasn’t long until Antony was in trouble. He says “It all started with just chilling and having a good time with mates which then soon changed to going out and fighting. And from there it just went on for a long time.” Since the time Anthony’s mum divorced his father, she had to live on her own to raise him. Anthony lacked someone to teach him what are the right things and what are the right choices to make. A lot of people say that Anthony is too deep into the gang life and he just currently realised also that he is in too deep. That realisation came from when he was answering the door and on the other side there were 9 guys that were armed. Anthony looked through the peep hole and sees a guy that he knew so he opened the door. As soon as he opened it a guy from the right came and pushed the door in. They started hitting him, hitting him until he was down to the floor. Anthony knew the attacker but didn’t know that his family would be targeted. When he heard his mum scream his mind just blanked he didn’t feel a thing after that. They took out their gun and put it to the back of his head and say we should kill you right here right now. It was that night that Anthony decided to be good. As Anthony embarks on what he hopes to be his new life the dangers of his old life are very much on his mind. He still walks around looking behind his back, wearing a bullet proof vest everywhere he goes and these days that even includes going to school. As for Anthony he made some bad decisions in his life and at least one good one. He stands with feet in both worlds now wanting to get out, wanting to change. “I swear if I could go back I really would change everything. Change the wrong choices I have made in the past. Sometimes I just wished that someone out there would just come and rescue me out of this life.” said Anthony. But not all people make the wrong choices in life. A lot of people do steer away of troubles as they make their way through life making the right choices. Making good choices could have a lot of benefits for your future. Staying in school, getting a good education is all a part of making the right choice. Making the right choice could guarantee you a great and successful future with a good career and a loving family. Remember, life is all about making choices. So how do we know if we have made the correct choices' Well, it is a matter of trial and error. Sometimes we will make some bad choices in our lives but if we remain positive we will learn from them.