In the novel Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario hard decisions are inevitable. For example, Enrique's girlfriend, Maria Isabel, had to make the decision to leave her daughter Jasmin in Honduras, so that she could go work in the United States providing a better life for her daughter. This decision was not made easily or quickly, for it took a lot of persuading by Enrique "Together we will provide her a better life"(Nazario 237). In the end Maria Isabel was so upset she left without even saying goodbye. Some could argue that her decision was not the right thing, and others could argue that it was. Making decisions is only hard because there are pros and cons to each side. If there was a clear answer then it would not be a hard choice. For Maria Isabel, leaving her daughter without a mother might not have been the best choice, yet at the same time she is providing much more for her daughter then she could have if she was there for her.
I tried to think of a time in my life where I made a hard decision, but none of them even came close to the one that Maria Isabel made. Only one situation comes to mind when I think of hard decisions, and that is when I said goodbye to my grandmother. My grandmother had been sick with cancer for a long time, but last Christmas she got extremely ill. Some people are very scared to say goodbye to a loved one when they are sick, but I knew I would regret it if I did not say goodbye one last time. Although it was hard, I had to make the decision because if I had not said goodbye I would have regretted it for the rest of my life. Have you ever made a hard decision?
I completely agree with you about hard decisions- they're never easy, but I guess that's the point! There are pros and cons to every side of a decision. A similar situation to yours, my grandfather was diagnosed with ALS when I was much younger. My mother didn't want me to have to understand what was happening at that age, so I never got the opportunity to say good bye to him. Since I wasn't in control because I was still too young to make my own decisions, I still regret not saying goodbye or even spending more time with him while I could.
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