In November 1979, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, a recently deposed Shah of Iran, petitioned President Jimmy Carter for admission to the United States. President Carter initially refused, knowing that the consequences would come from the Shiite community. However, after learning that Pahlavi was suffering from cancer, President Carter, in a conversational gesture, allowed Pahlavi and his wife into the country. As President Carter had guessed, Shiite students in the city of Tehran hatched a plan to “free” Pahlavi and bring him to justice for his crimes. On November 4, 1979, they seized the United States embassy in Tehran and took the sixty-six Americans present in the embassy hostage. After more than a hundred days of negotiations, President Carter, tired of waiting, ordered a military helicopter strike. Because the strike was not adequately planned, the helicopters crashed into the swirling sand and nine of them crashed. Immediately after this botched evacuation, Iran became more stingy and negotiations lasted almost a year before the Americans regained their freedom. Many historians hypothesize that if the evacuation had been properly planned, the operation could have been successful and the prisoners would not have remained in captivity for so long. Even if history offers us many situations that become worse because of hasty actions, daily life gives us an infinitely greater number. Often a joke towards a sibling or a disrespectful response has an equally negative impact. Although these seemingly harmful acts do not necessarily occur intentionally, they are the result of instinctive decisions coming from the heart. In fact, each of us makes these hasty decisions and, as a result, we often disrupt the relationships that matter most.