Virtues and their Importance:
Starting this week and forward, there will be three virtues I will be incorporating in my life. The first of the three virtues is prudence. Prudence is when you are cautious about your encompassing environment, and the incidents that occur around you. I am picking this particular virtue to focus on because I feel as if sometimes I need to be more careful about the things I do. As the saying goes, ''Think before you act.'' My plan for growing in this virtue is by doing daily routines in my life(Such as biking) and being more careful in what I do and how I do certain tasks. For example(and this may sound completely absurd), there was a time where I decided to race someone with my bike, and nearly hit a tree. If I had been more reckless, I could've seriously injured myself, which would've been unfortunate, to be blatantly honest with you. For me, prudence is actually one of the most important virtues a person would want to have, because then they wouldn't spiral into a troubling situation.
The second virtue that I am picking to focus on is honesty. Everyone, and I mean everyone, has been dishonest with themselves at least once in their life, regardless of the situation. Honesty is defined as as having the quality of being fair and truthful. I am picking this particular virtue to focus on because of how important I believe it is to tell the truth, mainly due to the fact that the biggest problem with lying in society is that it gets people into unnecessary trouble. An example of this is in fifth grade when I overheard about an anonymous(or at least the person seemed) person chucked a paper airplane across the room. The teacher asked who threw it, and everyone replied that they saw nothing. The aftermath of the situation? Everyone had lunch detention, which meant that everyone was in a dilemma because of the actions of another person. My plan for growing in this virtue is whenever I make a mistake,(which I make quite a few), I have to own up and be responsible for it, as well as to only speak the truth, which is a rule I can't break. See, the thing is that being a teenager isn't just about learning more about the world around you, but also being responsible, accountable, and truthful for your actions.
The third virtue that I am choosing is acceptance. Acceptance is embracing the truth about life. Acceptance is involved in almost every single emotion, some of the most reoccurring ones for people are happiness and sadness. When you are happy, you accept that the world is a joyful place for you. Whenever you feel sad, you accept that the world is an imperfect place, with bad things that surround you. The reason why I picked this particular virtue to focus on is because I believe acceptance is an essential part of life. Without acceptance, a person cannot live properly. If a person doesn't accept the loss of something after a prolonged period of time, then the person can not live happily. My plan for growing in this virtue is by being more accepting and conscientious of the things that go on around me, whether it's being in disbelief that that kid actually threw the basketball 50 feet in the air, and setting a new record for the most time on his hands, or accepting the fact that alarms are just plain annoying at 7 in the morning.
