| integrity |
[22 Jun 2005|08:25am] |
I was talking with a friend lastnight about integrity. Some people have it, and some people don't. When you have it, it shows through in every situation, in every decision you make. You can't buy it and you can't fake it, (for long) because who you really are has a way of revealing itself no matter the charade a person surrounds themselves with.
People make decisions, and there are consequences for those decisions. You can't very well go about life doing whatever you please and expect that the people you've stepped on won't take offense. Maybe you'll get away with it for awhile, but eventually someone will stop you dead in your tracks. Call it karma, call it fate. Either way, the universe has a way of holding a mirror in front of you from time to time, and when it does you can choose to look at your reflection, or look away. If you look away, however, as some have done, you will encounter that mirror again and again throughout your life until you are strong enough to see.
Some are thankful for this opportunity, while others see it as a travesty against them. They feel betrayed that their self-serving attitude has not served them well at all. They fight back, and when they do, only get knocked down another notch each time as fate takes a hand across their face. Some lessons are hard to learn.
Don't get me wrong .. no one is perfect. I think we've all told a lie, stolen a piece of candy, cheated on our lovers. Everyone temps fate. Having said that, some will feel too guilty to ever repeat the behavior, seeing the damage it causes, and others will get caught and realize that lying, cheating and stealing never works out well in the end. Then, there are those who'll cover one lie with another, steal to replace the stolen, ever trying to cheat destiny. When it catches up, and it always does, their betrayals topple like a house of cards, and they find themselves surrounded by the torn pieces of their selfish lives.
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