About Honor

[anchala]

Honor/Honour: (from wikipedia) is the evalutaion of a person's trustworthiness and social status based on that individuals espousals and actions. Honour is deemed exactly what determines a person's characotr: whether or not the person reflects honesty, respect, integrity or fairness.

Maintaining a honorable existence can be really difficult. It means one has to follow through one's words with actions and not talk out of the side of one's neck.

I can not say that I am the most honorable person in the word, but I understand the concept to the most basic level; things such as being on time, don't say I will do this or that when I can't follow through.
I have been wondering; how does one teach a child how to be an honorable person when the world is full of dishonorable people?
How did I learned the meaning of honor? Did I have good role models or was it taught through the culture I was raised?

I have been very poor financially most of my adult life. I have learned when I have no money to throw around to buy friendships, loyalty or services, I only have my words to go by that shows my integrity and value. My words are my worth, I must follow through to gain trust and what come out of my mouth has to be valuable; no joking matter.

Through the years of meeting people who don't respect their own words had dishearten and disappointed me so much that I tried to end my life, I wanted nothing to do with a world that is filled with endless ugliness of humanity. It is hard to maintain a positive attitude when there seem to be no light in the tunnel.

Some how through the lowest bottom that I sunk, I was rescued by a few individuals that were honorable in their existence. Through these few rare gems that were my mentors whom took me under their wings, I came back to life and tried to find my place in the world again. I was very lucky to find myself again through such crisis, it is hard to say how many lost soul out there are being wash away by the ways this world has become.

But really, what can a little single me do to change things for the better? the world is very large with millions of people and many I will never meet.

I worry, my child may grow up without understanding the value of honor and would become lost in the dark existence of lies and deceptions.

I only hope I can maintain my positive attitude and honorable way of being the best I can through the rest of my life, so when I die and ready for my urn my child would feel proud to have had an honorable parent like me.

[burkemom]

Aug. 23, 2009 at 2:23 PM

Just by sharing your words in this post you have made my day a little better.  Knowing that someone else in this big world holds honor close to their heart makes me want to fight for honor even more.  Thank You.