is that one choice leads to many other subsequent ones (and not always welcome consequences).
For instance, if I buy a house, I will have many choices about how to pay for it, the length of mortgage and size of payments. If I get a dog, I will have to provide water and food for it, let it outside to go to the bathroom, take it for walks, buy various accessories, pay for grooming and vet bills. People often don’t consider the ramifications of choices and the responsibilities they entail down the road.
This same theme has been long borne out by literature of the past and the lessons about choices that characters make. For instance, in The Odyssey, after being imprisoned on Calypso’s island for seven years, Odysseus starts for Ithaca–his home–and has to make many choices in dealing with the dangers that await him along the way: choices that keep him alive and ensure his safe return finally.
In Oedipus the King, Oedipus doggedly chooses to learn the truth about who killed his city’s former king and ignores the prophet Tiresias’s advice until he learns that he himself is the murderer who also married his mother, the dead king’s wife. He ends up blinding himself and going into exile.
In Shakespeare’s tragedy, Macbeth chooses to kill Scotland’s rightful king which leads to more murders, cover-ups, and national civil war. And so forth. We can learn much about choices, particularly bad ones from literature, and how one choice creates a domino effect of follow-up choices and consequences for individuals.