Ahh Standards and Principles. A lot has been going on recently and those things above have been tested in my life over the past weeks. I've been having different conversations and scenarios play out these days where my standards and or principles have been challenged.
It's certain that when we learn and grow, the things we have learnt or experienced are challenged regularly.
You can leave your house with a belief and come back without the same belief, having had something that happened that day shatter it to dust and leave it scattered by the wind. Sometimes it doesn't happen at once but a seed of doubt can be planted in your mind and in a period of time, ranging from a few hours to even years, that seed sprouts and becomes another tree of belief, having uprooted whatever belief or principle that was there.
I've had a few needs of mine make me question some of my standards and principles. Maybe not even question them but going as far as trying to bypass them entirely. After some tough conversations with some friends, I had to think real hard. What are those things that make me, me?
What are those things that if I do, will prevent me from recognizing myself? What am I known for? What are the positives among them? The negatives too?
Since we are always adapting to change in situations in our environment. Having to make tough decisions here and there, decisions that can destroy our lives or move it forward. I had to find out where exactly I had to draw the line. There has to be something I wouldn't do for anything. There has to be a principle or standard that makes me, me, that wouldn't change no matter what.
It's been tough, but it has had to be done. It is easy to lose oneself, especially in this world of social media craze where what happens online is taken as normal and superintendently.
I've done it for myself, it will definitely evolve over time, my standards. So, what are your standards that you wouldn't let up for anything?