The values that I believe in play a very important role in my life. These important values have been greatly influenced by my family. My values include freedom and the most important value above all, virtue. The belief’s I have are important because they shape the way I live my life in a way that I think is desirable to me and those around me. I believe that to value something is to assign love and importance to it, because it is probably something we hold dearly to.
I have had the fortune of being raised in a strong family background. I have two loving parents that have always supported me and taught me life's lessons while also letting me develop my own morals and values by their example. Their love for me has shown me great examples of how to be kind and loving toward others. My family has also placed me in a great environment, surrounded by people who care and are very loving. However, I would wish to elaborate further on ‘virtues’ which I’ve mentioned in the earlier paragraphs.
To simplify things, virtue basically means having the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong. Yet teenagers such as myself would often knowingly step into the quarters of mistakes and probably end up facing undesirable consequences. But I think we all agree that with making mistakes, people learn much more, because the experience is somewhat akin to the phrase – pain makes the body master of the mind. When there’s something wrong, we tend to pay more attention to it and learn from it so as not to commit again.
Through all the mistakes we learn, however, the value ‘virtue’ which I hold strongly to makes me and many others contradict ourselves because I feel that when an individual pursues virtue consciously, that individual is in actual fact, not virtuous at all. Reason being that we were granted freedom, which we gladly exploited because we felt it was more of a ‘need’ than a ‘want’. And finally we end up trying to good stuffs to make up for the ill things which we’ve done. I believe that is a yes for all, if not most people?
And when that happens, we’re causing trouble like toppling dominoes, more lies to cover up our mistakes, which leads to more lying, the ultimate snowball effect. Which is precisely I feel that the only way to demonstrate that I’m true to my values is to be myself, and just basically think of the consequences before acting. Nothing more nothing less, too much thinking and being self conscious of our values which are etched in us would probably make us go mad before we even reach adulthood.
essay which i helped Vivian to write. LOL. too long alr nv squeeze my brain juices HAHA.