Sometimes people are put into impossible situations. Situations where they have to go one way or the other. Situations that no matter what direction they go, no matter what way they choose, they lose. So what do they do? Do they weigh the cost of how much they sacrifice with each choice? Then decide on the option that loses less? Who knows. That is why they are called impossible situations, and that is why no matter what the decision is, it's wrong. It's wrong because in either situation they are in hot water with someone, they lose someone or someones, or anything in which consequences are inflicted on both choices.
These types of situations are those that surgeons, police officers, soldiers, and many other occupations face every day. For example, surgeons sometimes must decide whether a person should take their six months to live or whether to take a chance on surgery to save their life, even if that means they could die. This is an impossible situation. For police officers, it's deciding on whether to take the shot or not, and for soldiers, it can be the same thing, except on another level. For soldiers, it's deciding on whether or not to shoot, but for a different reason than police officers. More often than not a soldier might have to decide on whether to kill a kid or save his own life because that kid has a powerful weapon of mass destruction in his hands. Another for surgeons is during birth when the surgeons have to decide whether to save the mother or the child. How is the decision made? It's not made easily, I’m sure.
Although not relating to surgeons at all and what they have to go through day in and day out, I too have been put into one of these impossible situations, but a different kind of impossible. I have been forced to make a decision between everything that I’ve ever known and everything that I think I want. During my debate on which one to pick in my impossible situation, I thought the whole time that no matter what I was going to lose, and that no matter what I chose, it would be wrong. However, the more and more I debated, and the more and more I let the situation loom over my head, ruining my peaceful conscience, I began to realize something. The decisions that you have to make can either be always wrong or always right, depending on the way you look at it, depending on whether you are a glass half full or glass half empty kind of person.
It took me a while but I finally figured out that these impossible situations that sometimes occur make a person who they are. Even though the doctors are not directly being affected by their impossible situations, it still makes them themselves. It makes them a better them. As for me, my impossible situation made me better, made me happier, and will make me who I am in the future.
