I would like to address Integrity.
and when discussing integrity, the first thing to ask is, what is virtue?
Well, in my definition and I'm sure that of many others, integrity is the character and overall goodness a person retains with no external pressure to do so.
Without a sense of integrity where would society sit?
Would there be empathy, would there be a level of understanding, would humanity have failed a long time ago?
Integrity is a basic human characteristic that not all people share. At first, innocence is born into the world but, after long years of what some people may experience as a hard life, seem to lose their sense of integrity. In my personal opinion integrity is essential to a good life.
How good does it feel to lose a wallet and have somebody return it to you with all contents still inside, to me it feels better than having the wallet in the first place.
How much safer do you feel knowing that the people around you are willing to help one another, not to benefit themselves but, out of pure kindness?
With integrity comes honesty and, with honesty comes responsibility. I'm reminded of words told to me by a wise man I met while I was in Collbran and, the words were “Live a life being honest, and you'll have very few regrets.”
Those words after years still ring in my head every time I am faced with a difficult decision or a difficult situation. I believe that it is our responsibility as people to show the utmost integrity and honesty and hold ourselves to a very high standard in which we are the only party responsible for meeting.
To operate happily, and healthily. Not only because in the end, we will reap benefits for our efforts but because we live in a world where everything is connected and if people would hold themselves to a high standard of integrity, I just believe that chaos wouldn't thrive so easily.
At the end of the day, there are two things I hope you got from this.
one is excited about the changes you are capable of and,
two being a new drive to show as much integrity as possible and apply it to everything you do.
Thank You.
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