dilemma

May 28th, 2012 | 396 Entries

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396 Entries for “dilemma”

  1. Dilemmas are so weird. It’s so strange that every single moment of every single day is a dilemma. I’m sitting here on my laptop in the middle of a beautiful summer day when I could be outside reading a novel or walking around downtown. But you know what? It’s my first day off in WEEKS and I deserve it!

    Elizabeth
  2. Rain pelted against the widows – those poor women. Dilemma watched their huddled bodies bend toward the ground under the weight of water and shame. Everything was waterlogged; the rain had begun to affect the entire country.
    It was harder to hear people speak, layers were in, lawyers were out, and no one wanted to drink anything with no alcohol content. Emma, as her friends called her, missed her husband dreadfully. His bloated, drowned body was found last week in the street – or so she was told. She did not know what to believe anymore. This was Dilemma, and she was a big one.

  3. To kill or not to kill …? Now that was the question.

    Ivonae pondered it, drumming her sharply tapered nails against her cheek as she thought. On one hand, the intruder was invading her realm. However, on the other, it seemed to have no clue exactly what it had stumbled into, nor any real understanding of the riches it was passing over so quickly in its search for whatever it was that it had come here for.

    terradi
  4. Oh yeah. This is something of a dilemma. In my head anyway. In reality, it’s probably nothing at all. I probably won’t even remember this day. In the whole grand scheme of things, I mean. I’m not making sense. But I really hope everything’s okay and this “dilemma” isn’t really a dilemma at all.

  5. The real dilemma is that people don’t even seem to realize what’s going on. We’re told what’s important, about what we should care, for whom we should vote, to whom we should listen. MAKE YOUR OWN CHOICES. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH. It’s up to all of us, and we can’t vote against principle to be on the “winning side.”

    Darryl Willis
  6. I’m in dilemma, I thought. Which path will I choose? The safe, well lit one that leads me to security or the dark, winding one that I know leads me to where I want to go? It’s cobbled, and there’s roots growing up through it. It’s badly lit, and cracked, and I want to know what’s there.

    Roisin
  7. I have a small problem, slight really. And I’m not really sure what to do about it. You see that’s where you come in. I need you to do something for me. I want you to rectify my dilemma. All you need to do is listen, and dream. Simple.

    Debby
  8. Could not think what to write.

    5efdg
  9. The dilemma was crushing Susanna: should she kill the rabbit or sell it? Either way it had to go; it was his. His! God’s. Devout believers do as they are told, which the rabbit would understand. Most definitely. Quite definitely.
    Probably.

    Rajan
  10. “OMG!!! He just left me for some skank he saw wrestling an alligator!”
    It’s times like that, that you are facing a dilemma. A time when your boyfriend dumps you for an alligator wrestling slut.

  11. Everyone has your own dilemna in your life, someones worry with simple things, but others has difficult decisions to do.

    Julia
  12. I have been in many dilemmas in life. Sure the daily ones, like what to where to school, what shoes match, etc. that a typical high school girl goes through on a daily basis. However, i have also had the dilemma of choosing what parent I should with. It’s a difficult task because you don’t want to disappoint either one of them.

    Caroline
  13. A really big problem. Something that is so extreme you have to make up a bigger word than “problem.”

    Lilly
  14. one word wiil change your life. it may occure in any point of your entire lifetime. so every word you utter be so carefule about it. may be you are the victim of your own mouth. just say what you want to say in a way that pleases every one. so doent make any mistake while conversation.

    Simshamsi
  15. She was his wife. He loved her more than anything. But she couldn’t please him like another man could. He hated himself, almost as much as his wife would hate him when he told her.

    Kayla
  16. I stood before the bridge, tired, overwhelmed by the thoughts that raged in my brain. The man I had been following…did I know him? Did I somehow forget him when I forgot everything else last fall?
    All too soon, a hand was grasping my arm, a voice was leaning towards my ear, whispering, “It’s time to go.”
    I had a dilemma. Either fight and run after the man who had called me Mia or go with the man waiting by my side who would take me back to a place where everyone called me Amelia. But either way, trouble would follow me.
    “Are you coming, Amelia?”
    Hesitating, I gazed off towards the path the brunette guy had walked to. Though he was long gone, I stared on, hoping he would hear me whisper, “Yes?”

    KenzieB19
  17. it was craziness. i looked down at the stick, two lines i realized we had a serious dilemma on our hands. how was I going to tell him I was pregnant? Was he going to leave me? Was he going to tell everyone what I had done? I didn’t know for sure, I just knew I had to tell him, I had to be honest. That is my one fault, and good condition. To the T honesty. I couldn’t believe this had happened, and so soon after the last time. I was so frightened, for myself, and for the possibility of losing him. It wasn’t fair to him, it wasn’t his fault. I loved him but hadn’t told him at that point in our relationship. This was going to seem bigger than even that!

    cmatt
  18. So what do I do now, I am unable to change your mind and it would be wrong of me to try. The only thing left for me is to show you how I feel instead of telling you, I tell you too much, I should spend that time showing you.

  19. i have a dilemma. what would you do if you were in the same dilemma as myself? well for starters you would probably hit the wall, or a door to make an obnoxious hole in it…to think you’d make yourself feel better but only to make yourself worse off..with a damaged door and fist. thats how you would solve your dilemma if you were myself.

    Megan denton
  20. I’m having this dilemma. Before, I thought dilemma’s meaning was just a situation. But I got curious so i look for its meaning and found that it is not just simply a situation, but a situation where a person chooses between two undesirable choices.

  21. I’m having this dilemma. Before, I thought dilemma’s meaning was just a situation. But I got curious so i look

  22. How do I know what to do, what to think? Why do I think the things I do? Will everything eventually make sense? Am I going crazy? Does he like me? Will I ever finish this novel? Does any of it matter? It’s always so hard.

  23. There was really no dilemma. Really. He should just be able to ask. Just ask him. It’s not hard. It really isn’t.

    “John…would you…could I…”

    “What is it, ‘Lock? Everything ok?”

    “Yes…I just…”

    Just ask him. Just ask. It’s over the phone, for Christ’s sake. Over the damn phone. You don’t even have to see his face.

    “John…”

    “I’m nearly home, what is it?”

    “I…would you…let’s get married.”

    Silence.

    “John?”

    “Yes.”

    “Are you–”

    “Yes. You idiot. Yes.”

    See? No dilemma.

  24. Prisoner’s dilemma. What to do, what to do. Rat out your accomplice in hopes for a lighter term, or stay silent? What does your partner do? Does he betray you, or is he protecting you? It’s impossible to tell what he will do, and so you do the only thing you can. Look out for number one.

    Abby
  25. it is some problem. We don ´t know what we should do. More possibilities and we should choose one of them.

    katheriin
  26. The problem arises when we are born. We are full of dilemmas and mistakes that we need to fix. It’s the human condition. We are born as a dilemma, but somewhere, there’s someone that was born to combat your dilemma with their own.

    Ashton Kinman
  27. little diamond with many facets. locked in a velvet-lined box. does anyone know it’s there? does light reach it when it’s safe and sound?

  28. there were many times i had to think. somehow this wasn’t one where i had to, i just did. it was the shaking of my limbs that urged me forward.

    luna
  29. What to do?? I have to think quick. Do I build a sandcastle? Play in the ocean? Do I lay down and take a nap in the sand? Wondering;

    Leah
  30. i usually have the dilemma situation in the test.For example, i don’t know how to answer the question in the test.

    MoBo
  31. A dilemma is a difficult decision or choice one has to make. it is never easy and almost everyone gets put in one eventually. The only thing to do is cover the pros and cons and hope you make the right decision.

    Karla
  32. I just kept on bashing away at it, dementedly, and when that didn’t work I dropped the mallet and ran. I’ve always been a coward. My mother took all the courage in our family.

    Zoe
  33. I have this dilemma of not saying my true feelings because I grew up in a hectic house. My sister is bipolar and my little brother is ADHD and bipolar. There I was in the middle. I never wanted to say anything because my mom was already overwhelmed with my siblings and I didn’t want to bother her with my feelings.

    Saskia
  34. Everything is always a dilemma, no matter how much I try to avoid it. Why do people seem to be intrigued in bothering me and creating nothing but problems? I’m tired of it. If I could, I would wish it all away. But… I cannot. Something holds me back, something keeps me here, something… it’s all a huge fuckin’ dilemma.

    Chordscratch
  35. Let me tell you a story about a boy and a girl, a very different version that you’ve ever heard. Okay, so I’m lying, but all I’m trying to say, this isn’t about the one that got away. Watch it from your ivory tower. Paint the sky grey like a coward. How long have you got? I could go on for hours, a sweet little tale that ended sour. My words will ring in your ears.

  36. it made my day worse.

    mae
  37. a dilemma is when you have to choose between two things like when i had to choose between the nerdist and flogging molly and in the end i was gonna do flogging molly, but then i didn’t actually get to do either. but the point is that is a good example of a dilemma.

    bailey
  38. Here we were in a dilemma. We had this dying animal in front of us. A fox on the sterile table of science and medical exceptions. Yet if we didn’t rescue this animal, he would die of malnourishment and definite mistreatment. I sighed, then gritting my teeth, scooped up the tiny animal in my arms. I shot a glance over at my partner. “Let’s go.”

  39. dilemma que increible que dos personas que buscan lo mismo no puedan ponerse de acuerdo. si o no. hacer o no hacer. que palabra tan rara “dilema”, 16 segundos es buco… verga. palabra sucia.

    gina lee
  40. There are things to be said, but they require trust – in intuition, in lust, in this newly built bridge. Things are scary already.