1) Decisions, both good and bad, can have significant impacts and costs in our lives that may not always be gratifying. 2) The author discusses their own decision in 9th grade to improve their grades, which required sacrificing free time and stress but did not have a clearly positive outcome. 3) Harry Potter's decision to confront Voldemort cost him the death of his godfather Sirius Black, leaving him feeling like he had nothing left. President Obama faces harsh criticism and threats for his decision to become president.

1. Our decisions can have great impacts in our lives, no matter how hard or easy they are. I
believe that even making good decisions can change people’s lives in a way that may not
always be so gratifying. There are several paradigms of this like the time when I chose to
pick up my grades, the debacle that the eponymous character from the book Harry Potter
found himself in after fighting lord Voldemort, and the life of President Barack Obama
who chose to take such an important decision of being president.
When I was in the ninth grade, I experienced an enlightenment that brought me to
make the decision to make the best out of school, which would clearly show on my report
card. It wasn’t easy though, because such a decision required me to sacrifice plenty of my
time and effort, making sacrifice plenty my hobbies. I found myself stressing out often to
getting my homework and studying done. Clearly my decision didn’t have such an
outcome, because it cost me plenty of my personal time.
Furthermore, in the life of Harry Potter, the decision to confront lord Voldemort
cost him the life of the only family that truly loved him, his godfather, serious black. The
death eaters murdered him, leaving Harry feeling as though he had nothing left in life.
Without doubt, the decision that Harry made was heroic and worthy of praise, but the
price he were to pay for it could not be avoided. Harry made a costly, yet good decision.
Similarly, President Barack Obama has paid extremely high for his valorous
decision to become president of the U.S. he constantly receives harsh criticism of those
who greatly oppose him, is forced to deal with the exorbitant amount of threats toward
his family, and the huge debacle of our failing economy. Obviously, the president made a
good decision, but like in my other examples, his outcome has not been easy but costly.
Just as a person can have a costly bad decision, a person can have a costly good
decision. I made a good decision to pick up my grades, but it still asked more of me to
actually accomplish such a goal. Therefore, Our decisions will always have an outcome
no matter how small they are.