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Life is comprised of choices. Some choices are simple ones, and some are excruciating. Some choices take shocking amounts of time and energy. Most choices are loaded and filled with worry and doubt. What if I make the wrong decision? Every option seems tragic; the choice may determine the rest of your life. Which college you pick, who you decide to marry, whether or not you decide to extend the lease on your apartment. What you choose seems as if it may either doom your life to failure and depression, lead to a blissful arrangement of events that will conclude in security and euphoria. Pressure comes from every side when making a decision.

The aforementioned examples of important choices one makes in one's life (college, marriage, housing), are all life-altering, this is undoubtedly so. But I personally believe that the most important decisions are not so superficial, and perhaps not so perceptible. The most important choice we make in our lives is to be true to ourselves. This decision will affect how we handle every situation that crosses our paths. To be happy, we cannot let others influence the person we wish to be. We cannot imitate others in order to be successful. It is intensely imperative that each person make his/her own decisions and choices in life to truly live. I do not mean to imply that advice from others is to be discarded completely. If another finds it incumbent upon his/herself to advise us in our decisions, it is important to consider the validity of this advice. It is a mark of a truly wise person to listen to others and be flexible in decision-making. However, it is the mark of a weak person to let others make the decisions entirely. In the end, it is important to make choices depending on what we truly want and believe to be right.

Children rely on their parents to provide examples of how things are to be done in life. Good parents do just that, and only that. A tragic mistake that occurs so often in raising children is the parents' tendency to make choices for their children. This results in the children growing up in unhappy adolescents who resent their parents. They feel powerless and dependent. They long for independence but do not know how to go about attaining it. For children to grow to be happy, successful adults, they must know how to be true to themselves. They must be able to choose to be independent of oppressive influence when making decisions. If this is possible for them, they can truly know how it feels to be complete. Overall, I believe the choice to be independent and true to oneself is the most important decision we make in life. Only then can we find happiness, success, and freedom.

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