Kimball Khetani

Wade English 9

November 25, 2019

How Fight vs. Flight Has Affected My Life

        There was one time when I was with my friends in the gym lobby hanging out. We were all having a fun time making jokes and laughing, and there was this one joke that was directed towards me. Everyone laughed and thought it was funny but it kind of hurt my feelings. I knew that the person intended the joke as something to be funny not to insult me but I took it the other way. So I roasted him back. When I did this, I knew that I had made the wrong decision. After I made the joke he kept making more jokes about me and I was hurt even more. When everything was over I thought about how I had fought back and maybe I should’ve just laid back and accepted the joke because I knew he didn’t mean any harm. This was kind of like the time in the Odyssey when Odysseus fights Scylla instead of fleeing. Now when I am in these kinds of situations, I know just to take it in and probably know that they mean it as a joke.

Kimball Khetani

November 5, 2019

English 9 Wade

My Fatal Flaw

Not Thinking Before I Act

        My fatal flaw in life is definitely not thinking before I act. This has been a huge problem for me starting in middle school and I thought this was a really good example to talk about with this prompt. I have made a lot of bad decisions in my life. There were a couple of big ones but mostly small ones. I never really think about what I am doing. If every time, I stopped and thought about what I was doing, I would probably realize that I would get in trouble and the risk is greater than the reward. The reward, that was the major reason that I did everything I did. It wasn’t like my friends making a bet that I wouldn’t do it, it wasn’t them saying “I will give you a dollar if you do this.” It was attention. I always wanted more and more attention. Every time I did something that made my friends laugh, I felt really good. When I got so much attention, I had a hard time stopping and I couldn’t quit doing what satisfies me most. And then that one thing happened. In the eighth grade, I did the most stupid thing in the world and I had never gotten in more trouble. That is the decision I regret the most. That is when I realized I had to stop. I had to stop being stupid, not thinking before I act. I tried and still try to think about what I am doing before I do it and sometimes it's a comfortable environment so I still do a minor thing. But since that one incident, I think I really have turned things around.