listen to your conscience: FiNAl
Everyone has a conscience. You may not think you have one, but it’s there. Your conscience helps you make important decisions everyday. It helps you decide whether the decisions you make or made, are right or wrong. Your conscience sometimes even leads to feelings of regret when you do things that you usually wouldn’t do. One bad decision of not following your conscience can lead to consequences.
When students don’t follow their conscience, I believe it gives them some sort of feeling of freedom. Skipping school for example is something a lot of teenagers in middle school, high school do. It’s as if they want to get away from their problems by causing more. Students don’t ask themselves, “What happens when we get caught” or “What will the consequences be?” Maybe it feels good to be outside of school while it was still taking place. Maybe as soon as the student touches the concrete of “the other side” it makes them feel like they have the world in their hands. Teenagers cheat and steal almost everyday. I think they do it because their tired of following the rules; their tired of having the same routine. They want to feel as if they have done something different instead of always doing what everyone expects them to do.
Even though doing bad things and going against your conscience gives you a feeling of freedom it also is related to loss of freedom. By doing bad things you get in more trouble and aren’t able to have the freedom you used to gain.
Nimarit said,
December 19, 2008 @ 1:56 pm
This is a good essay. It shows how and why people don’t listen to their conscience. You did a great job of explaining how skipping school and ignoring your conscience is a loss of freedom, rather than a gain of freedom. There was a little spelling error (instead of “I think they do it because their,” replace the THEIR with THEY’RE). Other than that Great Job!
jaredreibms said,
February 12, 2009 @ 3:37 pm
Daylan,
I thought it was a good essay. You picked a hard topic to write on though. I like how you gave examples of how your conscience works. One thing I would change is that you said the word conscience a little too much in the first paragraph. Other than that Your ideas were very well separated into paragraphs. No run on sentences. Good Job.
Jared T.