Choices

So my family watched Underdog tonight. It was a funny and interested me very much so. Not very long into the movie two of the main characters, Jake and Shoeshine, were having a conversation. Shoeshine (aka Underdog) had just saved a young girl and her dog. Jake was telling him that he's a hero, he could be a superhero as well! Shoeshine said that he liked his powers but he didn't think that he could be a good superhero. Jake said that he could be. It just depended on his choices.
It seems that everything revolves around choices. Harry Potter wouldn't be 'the boy who lived' and continues to live if his parents hadn't made choices, and he soon followed. Ariel wanted to be human when she was clearly a mermaid, and would do anything, including visiting the sea witch, to be human.
What are we, as people, going to wear today? What's going to come out of our mouths today? Who's heart are we going to touch today? Or are we going to shatter someone's world?
No one in this world would have a job or even a life if we didn't have the chance of a choice. If we all had everything made up for us then this would be a very boring world.
Our choices also effect others, although we may not believe it. Our choices effect people in our life past, present, or future.
Many of people's choices in my past, and my own choices afterwards has affected who I am and how I see the world.

When you're alone, you most definitely feel alone. But how about when we're with people and we still feel so completely alone. You feel like you don't fit in with many people, and then you don't even fit in with the people you want to spend your time with the most?
I have friends that I can spend time with, but make me feel weird and uncomfortable because they swear and say crude things. I'm constantly asking myself, "Do they truly have a testimony of the true gospel? They don't act like they do." Then I have friends that won't talk to me for reasons unknown to myself. Lastly, my friends are away at school or across the country. The one person that I recently became really good friends with just left for school and won't be back until early March. One of my younger brothers is also friends with her. When he was gone, she was my friend. I think she understood the fact that I really didn't have any friends my own age that I could really hang out with. So when it comes down to feeling 'alone', I'm an expert.
I think it's become interesting. I recently realized that this young girl that I know, she reminds me a lot of myself. She has the knowledge that someone her age doesn't usually. That already sets you apart from others.
We all have had friends that make fun or tease us about something in our lives or actions. But there comes a time when our friends cross the line between making fun and hurting. If we don't learn to stand up to people at a young age, we'll forever have a hard time doing so. I still do. I don't have a problem standing up to people I know, it's people that I don't know. Unless you hurt someone I care about. Let's just say that redheads most definitely have tempers. But the hardest thing for some, especially at my friend's age, is standing up to your friends.
I've talked to her about just dropping her friends. Friends like 'that' aren't real friends. They're trashy friends who only care about themselves. The problem that many run into is that doing so will mean being 'alone'. Like I said earlier, I've become an expert at being alone. I know that doing so is 'easier said than done'. But I've lived for almost 20 years. There's a saying that says, "When one door closes, another opens." I've learned this to be true. Even though we may not see it. Sometimes we have to take a step into the dark to see things clearly.

So many times in our lives, we let people choose for us. We're too worried about what people think about us that we never get to make our own choices. Joseph Smith wouldn't have been an amazing 14-year-old young man if he cared so much about what other people thought. He's life wasn't great, or sometimes, not very happy, but he created a future for many people and many generations to follow because so.


So here's a question.



What choice are you going to make?