Category: Unit 02

 

Today was a great day to reflect on my values and how I portray my personal values. This weekend I chose to come to visit my sister that lives up in Seattle to spend some time with her during the long weekend and to watch the Seahawk playoff game. This is one example how I value my family. I’ve been raised to respect family and make them my number one priority. With second being health, my sister is pregnant and in between moving into a new home. My parents have taught us that good health is always a blessing and that we should do the most we can to value it. This personal value broadens to the morality that we shouldn’t smoke, heavily drink, along with other ways to damage our body and instead to be active and strong mental health along with mental health.

 

My family absolutely means the world to me. My parents let alone have provided a strong foundation of morals and ethics for all my siblings to understand why they are that way. Each one of us personally develop our own morals and slightly adjust our personal ethics as we age. This is an example on how I’ve personally have changed what my parents have taught me. After moving out and continuing to college, my parents are no longer there to watch over me and they have let me go into the real world along with their teachings in hope that I cherish them. A personal goal that I have for myself is to leave a legacy for my family to remember. I want to set an example of my values and the morals that I have carried along and shined through my personality.

I found this article by Lewis H. that talks about values to the extent of where they came from or how we perceive them everyday. It’s interesting to put into perspective in our everyday lives. Human values are traits or habits that we acknowledge and practice at an early age Lewis talks about this briefly. The values we have as humans is what separates from other species such as their natural habits. Our natural habitats for example are our communities, schools, churches, and many other places where they have a impact on how you may evaluate your values. From personal experience, I hold my values to a high standard and try to stay true to them no matter how they may be critiqued by others.

At the end of the first chapter, The Initial Question, Lewis hooks his readers hooked with broad, yet curious questions. He states, “what manner of men and women shall we be?” (Lewis, 5). I agree with this question that he mentions, because during our childhood we don’t have the control to choose who will be. Our parents shape our minds to behave a certain way with the morals they endow on us. The one argument I have against Lewis, is society to blame for how our values are shaped by society? The way society is progressing today, will the same human values we cherish still be valued for our children?