Assginment 19: Plastics Emmet Allen

Of all the recommendations I have received throughout my life, one of the most important was given by my brother. He told me to take life moment by moment. Many of the things I've been told to do were saturated with ridiculous amounts of hypocrisy from the giver of the advice, but my brother showed through example and held to it. While his three day consideration of which tattoos to scar his body with permanently may be an extreme example of the message he was trying to send, a more moderate interpretation has been incredibly important in my life. 

I like to think that my decisions lack the impulsivity that could prove detrimental to my own future, but there have been very important reactions made which have greatly influenced my life and which could otherwise have been overturned through consideration of possible detriments. From procrastination of homework in the name of personal relationships to the burning of bridges that allowed me to grow as a human being, if I had abandoned immediate goals in the name of future repercussions I wouldn't have most of the things I love today.