Dissecting Quotes #8

        This is the eighth edition of the series "Dissecting Quotes", where I choose a quote and briefly describe what I think the quote means and how to apply it to our everyday lives. I hope the insight a high schooler can provide can help brighten a day or get you thinking.

"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go

 back to its old dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. 

          The mind is an amazing thing. One second it can be changing humanity for forever, the next it can be dumb. The mind is influenced by everything around us, every little detail and experience. With these experiences, the mind is in a new state, the old cannot be achieved again. So good choices create a good mind, and bad choices create a bad mind. The choices we make should be made with our brains in mind.