Carefully making decisions

Ma. Celeste C. Aton

One time while I was along the Epifanio Delos Santos Avenue, a road signage that says, “Walang Tawiran, Nakamamatay” caught my attention. The road, more popularly known as EDSA, is an eight-lane avenue and to cross such highway needs one to be brave and daring. It’s the busiest highway in the country and that makes it deadly to cross.

Crossing busy roads is always a simple yet serious endeavor for me that I always do with extreme caution. My friends even joke on me on making roadcrossing a big deal while I am just adhering to my own safety as well as that of others.

I can compare crossing busy roads with how I write essays when I started doing so some nineteen years ago. It began when our professor required us to write something as to how we envision ourselves as 21st century teachers.

I made some comparison between crossing roads and going through life’s struggles. Both require making decisions and this is one goal that I would like to impart to my students someday and that is making the right decisions in life and accepting the consequences and being responsible of the decisions they make.

Making decisions entails not only of making personal choices but also being responsible for our choices. We should consider likewise, how the decisions we make can affect our families and the societies we live in. With the life that I have now, I have no regrets of choosing my profession as a teacher and I am just paying forward to making my students learn how to make right decisions of their own.

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The author is Junior High School Teacher at San Juan High School, San

Juan, Mexico, Pampanga.