What Beliefs I Hold Closest to Myself

When you try to describe yourself to others what are the first words that come to mind? I think the few things that first come to mind about me are essential things in my life that I can not live without. The first thing is honesty; you can not get through life telling lies. People will not trust you, and overall people will see you as an untrustworthy person. Even if the truth is harder to tell you must do it because people will respect you more once you have said it. When the honesty hurts someone you can not just say how bad you feel about them; you must try to relate to them. This is were my second belief comes into play, empathy. It is useless to tell someone who is feeling sad how everything is going to get better;  instead if you relate to them and even tell them something about you that relates to the situation they have a better chance of improving from their current situation. My third belief is integrity, this is because if you go through life cutting corners you will come to a day you can not cut those corners. Integrity is not doing the right thing when there are people around because you are expected to do the right thing. It  is what you do when there is nobody around because there is no pressure to do the right thing its just yourself and the situation ahead. This belief of mine was echoed in the national honors society speeches; the way the speaker explained what integrity was to her really resounded with me and my interpretation of integrity. My fourth belief is to be humble. I think all students at severn need to have an understanding of how privileged we are; we should not boast about are achievements and possessions. Instead we should be thankful for them, and understand how lucky we are to be in this position. My final point is that just be kind to others. Do not try to bring others down because that does nothing for you. Instead help others when they ask for help or even just compliment someone when they are seeming to have a bad day. In conclusion these traits are some things that I hold close to myself, and I think others should hold at least some of these traits close the themselves.