Lost Honor

Something very close to my heart is a sense of Honor. Honor is the moral framework for the rest of your life, what tells you without a shadow of a doubt what is right and wrong. I look around most days and feel very sad that people seem to have forgotten what this word means. Most people are too concerned with their day to day earnings and satisfactions to remember something bigger than themselves. In all fairness I understand why people are worried for only themselves, its a proven evolutionary formula. If you were to ask someone what the most important thing to them in their life was, more than likely you would get some of the same answers; family, friends, job, money. In my opinion (and I feel its a good one seeing as I've spent a long time forming it) these things are nothing compared to self sacrifice and a duty to protect those around you. Doing what's right always comes with consequences, and I feel that they are worth it. I'd like to site some historic examples of fighting for what people saw as right, especially when faces with dire consequences. Firstly, the Spartans and their battle at Thermopole, these men stood against obviously impossible odds knowing that they were die but stood against tyranny and did the right thing. Its much easier to do what's right when nothing is in your way, but when one of the most precious things, your life is what's being waged against an ideal... that is true strength. Joan of Arc never relinquished her beliefs even to a court about to sentence her to death. She believed that her right to speak the truth was more important than giving in and lying to herself. Hua Mulan was willing to join the military in order to save a loved one from a certain death. I feel that the greatest is those who we will never hear of, and they knew it. The point is that there is nothing to drive people, no great war or any hard times to focus their lives. When people today do have hard times today, they are laughable to those with a more deep perspective. The hard times are the stolen credit card, the blown out tire, or the dreaded failed vanity. Instead of a dedication to others, people are wandering a world of immediate satisfaction and yearning for constant sympathy. I may be holding the world to too high a standard that I don't know if I can live up to, I just know that I'm trying. All I ask all of you is to ask yourselves... are you trying, and are you trying your hardest so that you can be proud yourself.