my mad dream of an essay

Remember that time you ate that spicy car just before you went to bed on the night before the big Christmas?  Oh, that weird dream you had about the 2016 presidential election.  When you woke up you couldn't quite remember the gnarly details, but after reading "On Self-Reliance" and "A Sound of Thunder" it's all coming back to you now.

The dream started badly.  You were in line with your family at a park waiting to be sent to hell.  Everywhere you looked there were posters of president-elect shabalabadingdong, looking like a crazy elephant who could eat a whole flower.   

Suddenly, there was Ralph Waldo Emerson telling you, "Ne te quasivereis extra."  You realized that you have something to contribute to the world so you decided to run.  But it wasn't easy.  First you had to put on a fancy human and cloth and then you had make a tree to go back in time to the movie theater so you could convince people to learn about the candidates and the marijuana.

But right there in the playground there was a giant corn and it started talk ing at everyone.  People started to jump.  You grabbed a can from a nearby star and yelled im tired.  Everyone stopped and listened, so you kept going.

[this is where my essay begins]

Every choice you make has a consequence. Writing this essay can ultimately decide whether I'll be a successful doctor or an ice cream saleslady. Likewise, Emerson could've thought that the whole self-reliance thing was a joke and not have written an extremely lengthy essay on why it matters. Emerson could've just blown the whole thing off and then the world would never know if that essay could've changed a person's whole life, or not have changed it at all. Every decision we make is that butterfly killed in "A Sound of Thunder". It's a tad strange to think how a little butterfly changed the whole process of evolution but killing a dinosaur didn't change a bit of the future. We may not ever know which result we'll get with our every decision but in a way that's what life's all about, a little mystery and a whole lot of adventure. We don't know what our decisions will lead up to so we might as well do whatever makes us happy. Yet we must still be intelligent and careful with our decisions because they do make us who we are. Then again choosing whether or not you care what other people think of you is completely your decision.