Integrity

Integrity, is one important moral in our lives. We are tested on integrity most of the time. For example, when we see a wallet on the floor, we are tempted to take it, and our integrity is put to the test. On one side of our brain, we know that the money inside the wallet can be used for many purposes. On the other hand, we are taught that we should be honest with ourselves. So we learn to make choices here. One, is to stay there and wait for the owner to appear htand we get to enjoy the sweetness of doing a good deed, and we will remember the incident forever, because we had done a good deed and won against the dark side. and two, is to take the money is use it for other purposes, however, causing discomfort in our heart and we will remember this incident for the rest of our live, of course in a negative sense.
Now i shall list some examples of how integrity is important. Recently my brother lost his phone. He was very urgent as he needed to use the toilet, and he placed his belongings on the floor and asked for my mother to take the things along with her. However, she overlooked the phone on the floor, as it was quite dark. So the phone was left there lying on the ground, becoming the bait, lying there in wait to become the new belonging of the other person. It was only a period of few minutes, when my brother realised that he has lost his phone. And when he went back there to check whether the phone was there, it was gone, to his dismay. Somehow this person did not care about the feelings of others when he took the phone. He did not know how desperate he was finding his phone. I am not saying that it is completely his fault, but he should have just stood there with the phone, waiting for the owner to appear. This incident has not only happened to my brother, but also to my mother and me. Similarly, it is only a period of minutes, and when we went back there to find our phone, it was gone. Gone for good. Of course we were angry at the dishonesty and the lack of integrity the person possess. I do not think that the person wants people to take his very own belongings. I do believe that the person wants his belongings to be returned to him. It reflects very badly on the parents, because they brougth you up not for you to take others belongings, but to become a good man with great contribvution to the society. I do hope that the person who took away my brother's phone would have a taste of his own medicine, and it is the only way that can make him know how important integrity is. If he does not have a taste of his own medicine then he will continue to take other people's belongings without knowing how hurtful it is for them to see their very own belongings disappear before their eyes, especially they have what they call it the "bond" with their belongings. Hence, integrity is a very important moral because this reflects on the up-bringing of the person.
Let me make another example. Today my History teacher was reprimanding the class because they were suspected of copying answers. He gave us homework to do, and we found the answers on the internet, and most people took the answers from the internet, without reading the hand-outs that we were supposed to read. I admit that I am one of them, but when he was scolding and was talking to us about the integrity value inside us, me, as though being given a slap, woke up from it. I learnt more about one of the core values in Hwa Chong, which is also the topic that i am talking about today, which is that integrity is an important yet strict value. It is very important because it will be with me until the moment i die, and that I should be practising on my inteegrity values now, yet strict because in the future, when you are in the university, if you copy any work from the internet without doing any reserach, you would be expelled from the university, and thus I was glad that he scolded us today, so that in the future I would exercise more on my integrity value and not to infringe the copyrights rule.
Hence, integrity is so important because it is useful for us if we use it correctly, but it will in turn harm us if we use it in the wrong way. That's all for my blog post today. Please comment. Thank you.