“Take
calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.”
~ General George S. Patton, American. General World War I and II ( 1885-1945 )
Sara Westbrook’s - “One Decision”
Directions: Read the
lyrics to “One Decision”, listen to the song, and choose one of the following
activities to complete.
Essay: In your
essay discuss the meaning and importance of the song “One Decision”. Be sure to
reference and explain specific lines from the song as well as the song’s title.
In your essay you must explain how the song relates to the topic of
risk-taking. Include examples of healthy
risks you have taken in the past or are prepared to take in the future and
explain how these choices can change or have impacted your life in positive
ways. You may also want to provide examples of unhealthy risk-taking and
explain the negative consequences of such choices.
Visual: Create an original visual interpretation of “One
Decision”. Please incorporate the title
and at least one line from the song in your visual. The words can appear within
the image, above the image as a title, or even below the image as a caption. Please write a brief statement on the back of
your visual explaining the connection or relationship between the song and the
image you created.
Poem/Lyric: Write an
original poem or song about choices and healthy risk-taking and be sure to give
your song or poem a title. You may choose to include a particular lyric from
“One Decision” or even the title of the song, but this is not a requirement.
You may also choose to create a visual to accompany your song or poem, but it
is not required.
“The person who risks
nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may
avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and
grow and love and live.”
~ Leo F. Buscaglia ( 1924-1998)
One Decision
©2006 Sara Westbrook
The day was going along
just fine
Chorus
So take my body and
I’ll take the blame
Chorus
He had a choice to
buckle up! In this picture they did and they survive the crash.
Choices
One bad choice
could change your life. Sara felt this way when two young people in her
neighborhood were in a car accident. The driver was a minister’s son who was .1
over the alcohol limit. The passenger, his best friend, wasn’t wearing his
seatbelt and was thrown through the windshield and killed. The driver was
charged with drinking and driving and manslaughter. You can make healthy
risk-taking choices like wearing a seat belt in a car. Another thing you can do
is to try out for a sport and never stop until you get it right. You can also
make un-healthy risks like not wearing a seat belt and not doing anything but
watching TV and sitting all day.
One
healthy decision that I have made is being on the basketball team, I didn’t
want to but I think it has taught me a lot about teamwork. One unhealthy
decision that I have made is not watching my dog and she got away and then I
had to chase her to find her. I think making healthy decisions is important
because one decision could change your life.
“We
are all so different, but so much the same” is one of Sara’s quotes it is kind
of like saying we are all making choices, some good some bad. I think that the
boy who was driving can’t live his days with all the pain of knowing that he
played a part in killing his best friend. I also think the people in the boy’s
community think that everything that happened is such a blur of the past, and
yet it feels like it just happened. One bad choice could change your life.
“One Decision” was a really good song. It
really told the importance of how that one decision you make, small or large,
it could change your life forever. And that decision you make, you might never
or will never be able to take it back. It’s almost like a scar it never goes
away.
“One Decision” relates to risk-taking because
they were taking an unhealthy risk by drinking and driving. The passenger even
took two unhealthy risks. One, he got into a car with a person who was under
the influence and second he did not put on his seat belt. Those two decisions
changed his life forever and he can’t take it back. No one can. I probably took
more healthy risks than unhealthy risks because before I do something I think
about the outcome. A few healthy risks I took are, just recently I went out for
the school play. I made it and I felt good. I also played basketball this year.
The one thing that probably causes most unhealthy risks is the risk-takers that
don’t think about the consequences. That’s why there are a lot of people that
are willing to take the risk but if they saw the outcome I bet they would back
down.
Every day, Every
night people make healthy and unhealthy risks. And I’d wish that more people
would think about the outcome of their choice. That would save a lot of deaths
or injuries in the world. Our world is already scary enough we don’t need to
add more. One big risk I would say that is very brave,
is our soldiers who go to war. That is a big risk.
In “One Decision” it showed us how many people make
mistakes. Like a person drank and kills someone. Also, a person shooting
someone. One bad decision I made was to listen to people who don’t care about
grades. Also, people fighting with other people. Violence is no way to solve
things.
“One Decision” helps you think of things you will
do before you do it. Another thing, think and never give up. Like a drunk
driver who hits someone they have to have the conscience. You imagine living
all your life with the guilt.
“One Decision” is a powerful song it teaches you
the value in life. It teaches you when you make a bad decision you can’t change
it. Like you can’t change your past. You live with what
you have. And deal with what you have.
The meaning of the song “One Decision” by Sara Westbrook is that making
one decision, this one happened to be unhealthy, and it ended up being
something unexpected. In this song it explains how making one decision
that changed a life and you end up regretting the decision.
I think the lesson that can be learned from
hearing this song is to really think before you make a choice for a
decision. A lot of decisions are unhealthy such as, drunk driving, taking
drugs, and other things that could be hurtful or harmful to you and/or those
around you.
One line in the song that says, “One decision
could change your life. And you can’t take it back, can’t change the past,
you’re just trying to do what’s right.” I think that is mostly what the
song is about. If you think about it making a wrong decision like drunk driving
it could change your life if someone is put in jail or death
occurred. Also we can’t take back choices that we regret. That is
just life. And last but not least, you should always think about what will
be the best choice and try to do what is right for a healthy decision.
One healthy decision I made is auditioning
for the schools play Grease. I tried and because I tried I got a good
part. That is an example of healthy risk taking.
This song is about unhealthy risk taking. Things like drinking a driving, not wearing your seat belt and
getting in a car with a person that has been drinking. When you take bad
risk it doesn’t turn out so good. Not all risk taking turns out bad. There is
also good risk taking. Like competing in a contest or trying out for a team.
You have to think about the risk your taking before you take the risk.
One day
you think about doing something wrong,
But then
you’ll think again when your done and gone.
You must
think of how your friends and family will feel,
when you were
just trying to be stupid and cool.
But then
you realize that your decision,
just ‘One
Decision” can take you away,
and
everything around you.
Think
about that one day.
Everyday there is a decision
Everyday
there is a decision
You make and
take it
You live
it, breathe it, and blame it.
Everyday
there is a decision
You make
it and take it
You
ashame it, insane it, and doubt it.
Everyday
there is a decision
You
wonder how you get through it
So please
don’t let it change you.
One
decision that was wrong
Someone
was alive and now there gone.
One
decision could be bad.
It could
be leaving someone sad.
Now this
is what you should do,
Think
about it and be cool.
Take my
body and I will take the blame.
Just tell
me you still be the same.
Change
your behavior and don’t change anything else.
“Decisions”
You can
take back a piece of clothing
You can
take back words you didn’t mean to say
You can
take back a piece of pizza that isn’t the way
You like
it.
There is
one thing you can’t take back:
One
bad decision.
A bad
decision can change your life For EVER!
…But…
Number 1
life rule:
Never
have regrets because at one point what you did
was exactly
what you wanted to do. But you can have
One wish
to change everything you did but you can’t
Change
life
ONE DECISION
One
decision will change your life
One wrong
unhealthy risk
That may
take your life
Drugs,
alcohol, and drinking too
May make
you realize
What
happened to you.
Then you
finally realize
That you
got lucky
But you
and your friend
Were the
victims of that crash
Your
friend didn’t make it
You were
charged and went to jail.
But you
really wished you died too.
ONE
DECISION COULD CHANGE YOUR LIFE
AND YOU CAN’T TAKE IT BACK, CAN’T CHANGE THE PAST!!!!!!
ONE WRONG DECISION
The
decisions you make
May
change your life
You
killed somebody
And which
you are sorry
But you
can’t take back
NO MATTER
how hard you
Try to
forget that day
You never
will.
Even
though your out of jail
Your past
will still be there to haunt you.
Charges
were pressed
And you
went to court
But you
got through those hard times
It took
guts to confront those angry parents
But you
did it now you live your life with two kids,
Family
and all but you teach your kids everyday
Not to do
what you did.
ALL YOUR TRYING TO DO IS LIVE YOUR LIFE!!
This is a guy that
loves basketball but he smokes. You can’t do both. I’d take basketball.