Last week in class we did an exercise to help us figure out what our core values were as people. We started out with a list of 18 values with room to write in 2 more if we wanted, and were told to select the ones that were important to us.
What started out as a list including peace, happiness, friendship, authenticity, integrity, joy, love, family, truth, and wisdom, was soon whittled down through a series of cuts to simply family and integrity.
Family and Integrity are my 2 core values. The values I whittled away at are no less important, but these are the two that I simply could not live without. My family is my world. Always has been, always will be. They are the ones who have guided me, shaped me and let me grow into who I am today. They were there when others were not and I consider them my biggest support system. As I grow older, they will always remain a very large part of who I am, and my future family will hopefully be just as close as we are.
When it came to integrity, this was something that was important to me as well, because I've always lived my life by doing the moral and ethical thing. It hasn't always been popular, but I was able to live with that knowing that I was doing the right thing. I've always fought/stood up for the underdog, the unspoken or the underrepresented. I strongly feel that if you live your life with integrity, you will have lived a very full life. It may not be an easy one, but it will be full.
And so when I finally got down to these two values, I realized that in fact these are the two most important things in my life, and they have greatly influenced the way I've lived my life, and I'm sure they will continue to do so.
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