Nov 12, 2009

Posted in Business Ethics

Look At Your Character, When No One Is Watching!



This sounds like a little titter bitter sentence, but some of you might really agree, we change completely when we are in dark or supposedly when we are alone or we know for sure that no one is watching us. In this symphony, there are times even when our moral values restrict us, we do what is convenient to us only to save time, or money and those we do against our ethical values. In our daily life, we bend our own rules to get benefits or avoid the pains, which might go on in to achieving some target. Whatever, you are today is based is build up on your character which have been developed since all these years. What you speak, what you think, what you behave like are the true colors of your character, your character is like your internal compass which guides you to do a particular thing or react to something understandably.

We pass through different circumstances in life and each one of it has some lesson to teach, you might not know it now but may be later stages of life. Every moment of our existence is a lesson to learn and experience something new that shapes our values and also the character. You might agree with me to the fact, that we act different although we might be thinking differently for someone or something. I have often seen while driving to my morning gym session, people taking illegal car turns because no one is watching in the mornings, now that if you truly stand by your ethics and moral standards for a country, you wouldn’t do that, would you? While the story during any emergency is different, but do you feel that action clearly states something about your character, well it says the fact, that no one is watching so head on! Nobody really cares for moral values where everywhere we get to see so much of corruption and people blindly without giving it a second thought follow it.

Some people are of the character, they don’t care for anything, they do as they please while you might behave like a proper gentleman in a company meeting and the same night you disrespect a women, now that you know that it is not going to have any impact on your reputation because no one from the company has seen it. While this may be case in our daily lives too, people act differently outside but inside story is something else, couples being lovey-dovey or standing close hand-in-hand doesn’t signify their true love, they want to show world how happy they are and that they are really living a high-life. Every character has 2 sides of the coin, one that behaves as it is and the one that is trying to behave something else and the character may be even more loose when it comes to pride and the ego in an individual, the morality factor dies in your when you want to prove yourself right, that’s your ego which governs your true character, and you don’t even bother to speak any shit even when standing in front your company CEO. Now that’s a twist in the character which is more self centered and egocentric.

A strong character has 2 basic foundation stones one is integrity and the other is courage, you loose out on your integrity when you try to prove yourself right and other’s behavior start affecting your mental state. Have the courage to face the truth, don’t hide behind the bushes to save your face, the fact will remain forever, even when you are out so why not face it now?

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