Making your own choices 17 Articles

by Francesca Biller-Safran

Accidents, schmaccidents! If anyone should be crowned Ms. Reigning queen of tripping on her own feet, even if at times just for comedy's sake, I'm your girl. But what isn't so funny is the following line I continually h...read more

by Carolyn Ferrando

Choices The keys to success? It is said that your identity, your very nature is molded and developed from day dot. Many child welfare specialists and educators pin point the first 5 years of a child's life as the very ...read more

by Jlynn

You know that time in your life when you feel like you're being pulled in different directions? There is what the world around you expects of you because of your age on one side and what you want for yourself on the other....read more

by Athena Thomas

"I call Heaven and Earth to witness against you today: I place before you Life and Death, Blessing and Curse. Choose life so that you and your children will live. And love God, your God, listening obediently to him, firmly...read more

by Kellie Fairman

My mother is living with cancer. She did not smoke or drink. There is a family background of cancer in her side of the family. She is an only child. You may smoke most of your adult life, but that does not mean tha...read more

by Skylar Taylor

Choices are things we decide we want to embrace for ourselves. It is the free will GOD gave us. Our destiny can be one of quiet desperation or it can be an empowering movement. It is up to us to sort out which direction we...read more

by Mahala Mio

"Your choices determine your stature" When you were a little kid, your mom or dad (or whoever dared to raise you with morals) told you to stay away from bad guys (girls) and say please and thank you as much as you...read more

by Jeremy Orbell

Why are you here? On this page I mean. What was it that made you decide that you should look at this particular article over all the other thousands on the site? That's not for me to say but hopefully I can persuade you...read more

by Katie Schmitt

At the age of 20 my boyfriend & I learned that we were going to have a baby. One thing we knew is that we were in this together. Another issue that we agreed upon quickly was that we were not going to be getting married. ...read more

by Rachel B.

Ever since I can remember my parents drilled two things into my brother and I's heads. 1. Do anything you want to do as long as you are happy. 2. Don't regret anything, learn from your own mistakes. Now I must say th...read more

by Tim Radtke

As a human I think the ultimate choices that we make in life are those that will affect someone else's life. Decisions we make that affect other peoples lives are even bigger than the ones we make that affect our own lives...read more

by Sarah Tomarchio

In our lives or at least in mine I have had the power to chose the things I have done and how I have wanted to do them, with whom I chose and where I chose to do them. Why is it though that we still find a way to blame som...read more

by Leonard Mann

Wow, how many of you have had to make a hard decision in your life and then regret it after the fact but cannot change it? Today there are so many stories going around that not only people around your lifestyle quarrell ab...read more

by Paulalovespink

Choice. It's such a simple-looking word. Yes, or no. Stop, go. The choices themselves often seem simple enough, even binary for the most part. How difficult can that be? This obvious simplicity, however, is intr...read more

by Chari Lilley

In life, there are times when you feel that things happen for a purpose. You reflect and remember them and you realize that they have become your milestones. Especially the relationships you fostered along the way. I w...read more

by Nathan Davis

The Importance of Honesty We've all heard how important communication is to a relationship. And in fact it is very important. But, just as knowledge without wisdom means nothing, communication without honesty is usele...read more

by Paula A

I don't know about you but when I was in my teens all of my choices were made for me, I didn't go out with my friends much as I wasn't allowed to mix with them. I didn't have boyfriends like the other girls at school becau...read more