BREAKING YOUR PRINCIPLES

Sir,

Creating your own personal principles is basically identifying a set of personal values that have a meaning to you, and living in alignment with those values. This code needs to be one that you commit to and work towards fulfilling every day.

Some say ‘rules are meant to be broken’ but then how do you manage to cut off a toe that is part of you? A principle is much more valuable than a rule. 

A personal principle dictates how you control yourself. It’s so much easy to break home rules, school rules because those were just laid down by a different person whose intentions are definitely different to yours.

Survive 

In simpler terms, I would say a rule is like an apple, you may eat it, you might as well not, but keep it in mind that ‘an apple a day keeps the doctor away’. Then, a personal principle is like water; how long can we survive without water? Remember you don’t just use water for drinking but it is also multifunctional. 

Charge

Having your own principles doesn’t have to be 20 years from now, you don’t have to wait until you are married, until you get a job or until you see the bad side of life but be in charge of your values at a very early stage. That is at the moment you realise what is bad and what is right. For example; there is this COVID-19 pandemic and we have been told to always wear masks when in public. That is a new rule for the nation and we need to abide by it, but there are people who wear their masks when they see police officers. If you are a principled person you will try by all means to distance yourself from anything that can expose you to this virus, therefore, you will surely put on your mask the moment you step out of your house. 

I personally think that a principled person is one with direction in life. This code is a dot to connect with another in order to be where you want to be. We live to make ourselves proud, then why would you want to break that.

Nontokozo Masuku 

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