What It Means To Be Taught What Is Wrong

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Throughout life we are taught what is right and what is wrong. Oddly enough some people go through life doing what is right and yet, others seem to constantly find themselves second guessing what is right and wrong. Reflecting back on my childhood days, I realize that as a child I was not that perfect little angle so many parents like to brag about during a Sunday social gathering after church. Maybe, I was easily influenced by my school buddies, or maybe it was because I didn’t want to be labeled as the outcast, chicken, or the friend who was no fun to hang out with. Growing up, children are often referred to as a young man or young woman and when I earned that label I somehow knew it all. As you young man, I decided to do things that I had been taught were wrong, yet I felt those rules did not apply to this young man and there was no way I would get caught. Somehow I was wrong and it didn’t take me long to …show more content…

As stated earlier, these are basic core values and my definition of each of these three words would not be the same as found in a dictionary. So, lets exam each word through my eyes. Trust: very similar to faith or promise. Political leaders use trust as a way to sway the American people to vote for them. Many times one is persuade only to find out they were lied, betrayed by others. Just as I was led to believe my buddy that he was telling the truth. Based on the visit from the police officers, I knew from that point on; not to believe anything he told. Had I trusted, my initial instinct when he went through the window, I would have saved myself a lot of punishment. Trust is a very important part of everyone’s daily life, whether it is trusting in oneself, or when we put trust in others to do something for us, i.e. taxi ride, doctors, auto mechanics, just to name a

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