my random book of randomness

. essay for 'augusta, gone' for school .

i legit just need somewhere to write out my thoughts for this sooo here it goes

The choices you make in your life don't only affect you, but they affect others around you too. If you make bad choices, the consequences involve both you and your family/friends. If you make good choices, they also affect everyone around you, but in better ways.

When you make bad choices, the others around you feel the impact. Sometimes, it makes the other people around you upset. It makes them extremely upset, which might be bouncing off of your anger, like in the movie, "Augusta, Gone". Augusta was extremely upset during most of the movie, and her being upset caused other people around her to be upset too. It also worries the people around you. If you do something that could hurt yourself, you might not care much at the moment, but it will cause the people that do care about you to worry a lot about your wellbeing. 

It could, and probably would, hurt the people around you. Mentally, if you aren't in a good place, it makes them fall into a worse mindset than they would have if you were doing good. The things you would probably say, or do, will hurt them because they care about you. Augusta was constantly hurting her mother mentally, telling her that she hated her countless times, and just letting her know how angry she was at her. You being in a bad spot mentally and physically can get a lot of people involved, too. In  the movie, Augusta met and dealt with countless people, ranging from drug dealers, to her family and friends, and then to counselors and teachers at the camps she was sent to for reform. Her making all of the bad choices that got her to the different places in the movie affected all of these people, if only just by them meeting her.

Not only did all of  Augusta's choices affect herself, it extremely affected her family. For example, her mother had to leave work multiple times because Augusta had gotten into trouble, or needed her mother home. She got multiple calls from the school during important things going on at work, which probably affected the way she was working and how she handled things at her job. This could happen to anyone who made bad choices;  their parents could be called ( if they were a minor ) or they could get in trouble, or even fired, from their jobs. 

Making bad choices set bad examples for your younger siblings, younger relatives, or anyone younger than you that happens to look up to you. Augusta taught her brother how to smoke, which wasn't something a role model should have done. Her doing everything she did could have made her brother think it was okay, and he could have started to do drugs and made other bad choices. Therefore, it would have affected him in the end, and not only Augusta. This can happen to anyone who sets a bad example for younger kids. Choosing bad things in life also can make the people around you believe that they are at fault, when really, it was your own fault. It makes them feel guilty for not helping you more, or for not helping you in all the ways you need it. Augusta's mother thought, for a while, she could do something, or she needed to help. She felt so bad that she couldn't. And really, it was all Augusta's doing.

Along with the things it can do to everyone around you, making bad choices can horribly affect your life and your relationships with others. It makes it so old friends stop hanging out with you, like with Daisy and Augusta in the movie. It also makes it so people don't want to be around you or are afraid to be around you, as also seen in the movie. You get in trouble with school, your job, most anything that could get you in trouble. It changes people's judgements of you, and makes them see less of you. 

Overall, making bad choices really affects everyone, and not just yourself. Yes, it can happen for the better sometimes, but normally bad choices are the ones that have the most affect on your life and relationships with other people around you. If you want to make bad choices, do so, because like you say it's "your life". But just remember that your life has effects on other people's lives, too.