Art of Giving – Moral Compass (Part 2)
Parenting involves two separate activities. You have to change your child in that you need to educate your child and instill moral values in them. But you also need to celebrate your child for who he or she is and make them feel really good.
Andrew Solomon
We all would like to believe that we live by a set of principles or moral values, for they keep us from going off course. But we might not be so willing to openly admit to ourselves, let alone to others that just because we live an upstanding life (doing the right things!!), it does not mean we are people of good character because the sum of a person is not only whether he makes no mistakes in judgment.
Therefore, It is only fair to evaluate a person’s character by looking at how he conducts himself in many areas. How do they treat strangers, indeed enemies? Are they honest and loyal? Do they help others in need? There are many other criteria in which we can use to evaluate a person’s character. None of this, however, suggests that we should weigh all moral failings equally but instead on how impactful their moral failings have on other people. We all have our own degree of moral failings, be it selfishness, pride or honesty just to name a few. As said, it is right to protect oneself but that should not ever involve sacrificing another person in the process.
