Life Is Not Worth Living: The Consequences Of Life

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“I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions” (Anthony Weiner). It is said by many different people online that on average we make about 35,000 decisions each day and 3,000 as a young child. In my short 19 years on this earth I have already made over 242 million decisions. Many were small and quite a few were big. The biggest mistake, or wrong decision, I have made was the night I decided that life was not worth living anymore. The night that I decided life was not worth living was probably the biggest mistake I have ever made. This decision had many negative consequences that followed it but brought about a change in …show more content…

It was a bad decision that had many bad consequences that still follow me today. Live is worth living and there are many other positive options than deciding that life is not worth living anymore. No matter how bad things get there I am not alone and can fight the fight. I have been down and have been up so I know the fight and win again. It just takes time and the will to be better. Nosich has informed us critical thinkers and readers that there are quite a few impediments that influence our critical thinking. These impediments hinder us or form a block when we try to think deeper or outside of the box about a certain topic or scenario. Some of his impediments would include ones fear, all-or-nothing thinking, and one’s own previous experience. My depression influenced my way of thinking more than anything. This was a block for me and is for me currently. It minimizes my way of thinking and causes me to just think that it happened because it just did. Or that it happened because I wasn’t going to get better so why not try and take the only way out that was given. This was one of the blocks that surrounded my thinking that enabled me to make that

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