My Mad Dream of An Essay

[Thanks Lesley!  Thought this posted Friday but it got stuck in Drafts. -dp]

Treat the following like your own personal Mad Libs.  Copy and paste the following to a post on your blog [title: MY MAD DREAM OF AN ESSAY]. Fill in the blanks to write your own story.  Then answer the prompt at the bottom.  Feel free to spoof this, play with a friend or relative, read it out loud at the Thanksgiving table, etc.

Remember that time you ate that spicy fish just before you went to bed on the night before the big IceJJFish Concert?  Oh, that weird dream you had about the 2016 presidential election.  When you woke up you couldn't quite remember the short 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 jesus' trap house  waiting to be sent to North Korea.  Everywhere you looked there were posters of president-elect goofy goober, looking like a crazy hippo who could eat a whole mailbox.   

Suddenly, there was Ralph Waldo Emerson telling you, "[your favorite quote from his essay]."  You realized that you have something to contribute to the world so you decided to jump.  But it wasn't easy.  First you had to put on a fancy house and bed and then you had make a faithful spous to go back in time to the club so you could convince people to learn about the candidates and tell them to vote for other candidates .

But right there in the club  there was a giant purse and it started shooting at everyone.  People started to sing.  You grabbed a jacket from a nearby lamp  and yelled FREE X.  Everyone stopped and listened, so you kept going.

  Decisions are the most important things we have to do, decide what to do. Some choices can be good and others can be bad, but most of the time we still back up our decisions. Decisions are hard most of the time since we can't always change them, what happens, happens. Decisions make us who we are, we learn from our bad ones and succeed with the good ones.
  One of the best decisions I made was change friends. A few years ago, I was hanging around with the wrong crowd. They would always go steal from places and hang out with gangsters. I felt uncomfortable being with them, I never wanted to steal and I never did, but I still hung around with them. I stopped hanging out with them and they would make fun of me for awhile, but they stopped a few weeks later because they knew calling me names wouldn't change my mind on continuing to hang with them.
  "To be yourself in the world instead of being something else is a great accomplishment". This was probably one of my favorite quotes from Emerson's Essay, it's exactly what I did. It's better to be yourself and know you're wrong then to do things you dislike. A lot of people are quite, like me, and don't like to speak up when they need help with school work or anything else. People like myself need to start speaking up and not being scared anymore, how can you learn without overcoming obstacles? 
  "We don't want to change the Future. We don't belong here in the Past. The government doesn't like us here. We have to pay big graft to keep our franchise. A Time Machine is finicky business. Not knowing it, we might kill an important animal, a small bird, a roach, a flower even, thus destroying an important link in a growing species." This was probably my favorite quests in from A Sound of Thunder.   Messing with the past isn't always s good thing. Like messing with an ex, she's in the past for a reason, mistakes are worth learning from. Messing with the past can change the future, say I'm doing good but I go back to hanging out with the wrong people. I just fucked up my future for choosing to go back with the wrong crowd instead of trying to better myself. 
  Our decisions will always matter.if someone thinks otherwise, then they're incorrect.  It's like people who don't vote because they think their decisions doesn't matter, but if they would of gone out to vote maybe the outcome would of been different. Our decisions are usually permanently, so think wisely before deciding on something big.