Why Are Moral Codes Important To Me

The idea of moral codes always seemed so vague to me. How difficult must it be to sum up your personality, or lifestyle in a few paragraphs? Not as hard as I thought apparently. Immediately these traits sprung to mind, and there’s many more that are too big to be tied down in 2,000 words. I think that helping others, independence, integrity and rationality are the main things I try to live my life by. I’m sure as I grow up, these things will change, maybe indepence will slowly fade and be replaced by “Do no harm”. As I grow and discover things about myself, I’m sure I’ll find more. But, in this moment, I think I can say with confidence that these traits are the main ones in my life.
I’ve always been very independent, from a young age, mostly when it came to academics, or anything work-related. (clubs, etc) Independence has helped me become a a better problem solver, because I figure things out by myself. However, I’m still very much an extrovert, I’m independent in mostly just the academic range.

I think independence spawned from being the older sibling, so since my siblings are younger, they need more time. This also came from me wanting to do more in projects, and so I realized at a young age that if I did projects alone, I could get more done, and I could control how it looked/turned out. This independence eventually grew and grew, to the point where I can get nervous when asking for help, however, I think it has made me a better worker.
I think that another one of my core traits is rationality. I try to approach everything from an outsider's perspective, with a level head and an unbiased opinion. Rationality is important to me because I can often lose sight of a goal, based on what other things are happening in the moment, so being able to step back and try to clear my mind of biases is crucial. Rationality also comes into play when looking at the bigger picture, because, as I mentioned, I lose sight of what I’m trying to achieve. So being able to see how much things matters in the long run, or how even simply knowing that I will get through this, one way or another, is extremely helpful.
Rationality has become more prominent in my life as I’ve grown up, and started doing more “things”.

(Clubs, extracurriculars, etc) At some point when I was adjusting to doing everything, I realised that I was a lot more stressed, and when I’m stressed, I do more things that I regret, or make rash decisions because I think it will save me time. So I realized, if I take the time to step back and look at the situation rationally, I end up happier and make a better a decision.
The third core value I try to live by, is helping others. This is the most common trait in the “social” aspect of my life, as opposed to the previous traits. Helping others is my motive for most social/emotion things I do, because it’s what I’ve always been taught to do.
I was told from a very young age that you should treat others with kindness, and that the easiest way to be kind was to help others. Both of my parents are doctors as well, so I'm always around people whose job it is to help

others.
Eventually, it just became a habit to help others, or put people before myself. And while this seems like a great things, it’s the most problematic of my core values. Sometimes, it can get to the point where I put helping others before doing anything. Since helping others is the strongest trait, it often out rules even my rationality. Thankfully, as I’ve grown up in the past year-or-so, I’ve been better about trying to balance all three traits equally.
Whilst all of these values are good, it’s only when they are in balance that I can be the best person I can be. It’s important to see both the upsides and downsides to all of my values, and release how the make me just as flawed as they make me good.