Pick Your Poison

I have never sacrificed much of anything for anyone, to be honest. As a general rule of thumb, I don't like most people, and the people I do like never really ask me for much of anything, if at all. The only times I have sacrificed were moments where I just wanted to rest and my friends wanted me to hang out with them. I'll likely be sacrificing next weekend too, as I was supposed to go to some classes so my dad can start teaching me to drive, but I'm probably going to put it off in favor of hanging out with my friends. Like I said, I rarely make sacrifices, and when I do, they're not terribly important.

My parents, on the other hand, make massive sacrifices each day for me. Most of the time, they are willing to give up on what they want to do so that I can do what I want to do. What's more, is that despite what they do for me, I still get into fights pretty much every other day with them; sometimes over very stupid things. I'm not saying I regret it, and that's just the thing: they know this. They acknowledge that I can often be a little [word omitted], and despite all that they go on treating me as best they can, at appropriate times. In that aspect, alone, they sacrifice so much for me.

So this just begs the question: "How much should you sacrifice?" I feel as though it's highly situational. For example, if I saw a child about to be hit by a car, I'd try and save them, even if it cost me my life. My reasoning is simple: the child is younger than I am. I would not be so willing to sacrifice so much if it was a man in his forties about to be hit by a car. So you see, it's also about how you feel about the sacrifices you're making. In Of Mice and Men George is willing to sacrifice his life (not phsyically) for Lennie. This is worth it, to him, just for the companionship, but I would never do it, because, to be completely honest, people like Lennie would never truly amount to anything substantial and, as the book proves, would get into ungodly amounts of trouble that would eventually lead to something being done about it.