Choices

"It is our choices that show what we truly are, for more than our abilities"
                                                                                           - J.K. Rowling
What do our choices reveal about who we really are? Think about an important choice that you have made. What would others learn about you if they knew how you chose? Do you agree with the quotation above? Are there times when we have to make choices that don't reflect how we truly feel or think about things? Could this be culturally influenced?

• Our choices do reveal who we really are. For example, through the different choices we make, we can understand a person's personality (and their behavior), and also a person's beliefs about different subjects and topics. 
• To me, I do not believe that I have met a decision that is extremely important to me yet. However, one simple example may be between my family and friends. If I were to choose between them, I would definitely choose my friends. This shows that to me, friendship is more important. 
• I believe that the quotation is half right and half wrong. Yes, people's true self do show through their choices, but sometimes people make choices for the better good instead of according to what they really feel. We have to know the person's thoughts and reasons when they made the decision (what they looked at [the disadvantages and advantages of the choices]) in order to know about who they really are.
• Sometimes, more specifically, most of the time, people make choices for the better good. For example, when you have a job, you go with the boss's choices and decisions. Another example is that you sometimes have to go with the choices your family tells you to go with. 
• Choices and thoughts may be culturally influenced.