My Moral Compass

       The most important moral to me in life is loving my family. I have extremely strong beliefs that everyone should love their family because those are the people that have always cared for you and will always be there. Family is forever and will always be there when you need them, while friends come and go. My family has taught me everything i know and live by, giving me the strength to go out into the world and succeed. Guiding me in every decision I make is my family because I think about what they would think about what i'm doing before I do it. If my parents wouldn't do it, i'm not going to do it either because they're my guide to success and happiness.

       Honesty is the number one policy and the one thing I don't stand for is liars. I believe everyone should tell the truth no matter how hard it can be because of many reasons. First, I think that if you lie, it will eat away at you and haunt you until you eventually tell the truth. Second, people deserve to know the truth like for example if a boy cheats on a girl and goes on with the relationship. The boy should breakup with the girl before cheating to begin with, and if it happens he needs to tell her right away or he will break her heart. Thirdly, it goes back to "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" who always lied until one day he told the truth but no one believed him. When the wolf was really there no one came to his rescue and honesty should be one of everyone's  morals as humans.

       One of my morals that is a lot different than that of students my age is learning. I have strong beliefs about learning, not just because my grandfather was a college professor, but because I want to succeed. It is proven that reading makes you smarter and I try to read a little every day to accomplish that. Everything you take in while you're in school is going to be useful in life no matter what it is, it's always good to learn it. In order to succeed in life we need to learn all we can and stay in school until were educated enough to go into the real world. I disprove of people that drop out of school because your education is the most important thing and also the one thing that no one can ever take away from you!

       Lastly, I have freedom on my list because currently in 2011 a lot of our rights have been taken away from us and no one has seemed to do anything about it. I find it strange that even though so many things are in our constitution, we can change them and disobey them with no consequences. The right to free speech? Forget it, we can't say anything anymore without being called racist or out of line and this needs to change. Freedom is so important and once we lose it, we might never get it back. All of these morals I follow in life lead me to a path involving school and a powerful career in Occupational Therapy. They mean so much to me because they are based off my parent's thoughts but are completely mine. I believe what i wrote for morals are right and I couldn't imagine believing any different but we all have different ideas on life and it's okay.