Easy vs. Right

This week I started to re-read the amazing Harry Potter books.  In the forth book, The Goblet of Fire, Dumbledore is addressing Harry and says, “…the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right, and what is easy…” I understand where Dumbledore is coming from when he says this. Life is complicated, and we are all faced with difficult choices.
 Each of us will have to make some very tough calls throughout life: whether or not to go to college, if we should major is education or criminal justice, or if we should go out with our friends this Saturday night. Though not all our choices are life altering that doesn’t mean that they aren’t difficult to make. For instance, I graduate in May and I am faced with the decision about college. Should I go away to college or should I stay in Holbrook. I know that either way I am going to college, but I have no idea where. It would be much easier to go away to college, and leave my family here, but is that the right decision. My family needs me, especially my mother. I’m torn. Though this isn’t the biggest choice I’ll make in my life time I am still struggling with it, and we all have trouble making these types of decisions.

The “easy way out” is often tempting because life can be so hard. It can be easier to not have to face an emotionally difficult decision in favor for a simpler one, but avoiding these issues doesn’t make them go away. After trying to take that “easy way out” you come to find it didn’t leave you where you wanted to be, but that’s how we grow. We make mistakes. We try to make life easier on ourselves. However, it often just makes doing the right thing that much harder. Yet we as humans often go back and do the right thing. Even if it takes years for us to correct our decision… we almost always do. 
Dumbledore taught me that we do have to make a choice when life gets hard, but what I also took from his words is that we will make the right choice in the end. He the upmost faith in Harry’s ability to lead and carry on even when is life took a turn for the worse. This quote couldn’t have come at a better time. I was losing my faith in people’s abilities to be good, but we all mess up at some point in our lives. However, it’s our ability to correct those mistakes that makes us remarkable. In the end most make the right choice, and are better for it. My lesson for the week is this: make the right choices. Whenever, however you do just make the right choice for you. You may not see the solution now, but it will come, and when it does you’ll know.