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A Major Decision in My Life
A major decision in my life

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A major decision in my life Finding a career might be one of the most important decisions I will have to make in life. I mean, this decision will affect the rest of my life as well as the lives of my future family, so it is really something I should analyze before taking the decision of what I am going to do. At this point in my life, I think I should already have all this figured out, I mean, I am only one semester from getting into college, so I should already pick my career but always I do not know what I want until I make the decision of my career and then after picking my career I noticed that is not what I want. It is real hard to make a major decision as picking your career because this will change my life and the other around me. I have to remember that every decision is like a fork in the road you chose one and go down that road. There may be a cutoff that goes back to another you might have passed up before, but there may not. Every decision takes you to another crossroads or fork later that takes you to another, etc. I know that I cannot go back to one in the past but I can try to fix it in the present, but I’ll never know where any decision will take me. That's why life is an adventure; I’ll never know how it will turn out, or what will happen next for that reason taking a major decision it is real hard. As I walk on the journey of life I will make a number of decisions. Daily I will make decisions pertaining to things I want to do every day. However, along the way, there are critical decisions that I will have to make that will impact my life forever. My life’s outcomes are influenced directly by the quality of decisions I will make. I should never blame anything or anyone for these outcomes as I would have exercised my own right to make decisions for my life. I cannot delegate or relegate the decision to other people. I am the head master or captain on my own life. I am in the

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