My Personal Credos Paper
My Personal Credos: Respect, Loyalty, and Integrity
By Jason Sparks
Park University
Humanities
Dr. Young
I believe in good people with good morals and values, some of which being respect, loyalty and integrity. Although good people poses other great attributes I feel these are the three pillars that are the core. Throughout time these fundamental morals and values have been the back bone for different societies all over the world. During ancient times that respect, loyalty and integrity was given to the king or emperor, where now it’s important to carrying these values with most you come across. Carrying these values are important with most you come across now because to function in society in a positive way and these same values being returned they must be given. Starting with respect which is defined as a feeling of admiration for something or someone because of their or its qualities or achievements. From this definition I feel the key word is admiration, and it’s hard to admire something or someone without good qualities. Respect comes from people of all walks of life and in all kind of situations. For example while serving in the Air Force I noticed that a lot of military members seemed to have respect for a lot superior’s rank, but not the person. I began to notice this trend as a young airman when an older senior NCO pulled me aside and said to me “Hey Sparks, would you rather have respect for your rank or personality?” This was a question I pondered on for a bit and replied with the answer, “Both”. The reason I said both was because no matter what my rank was I wanted people to always respect me as a human being. After my reply the Senior NCO, next asked “Well Sparks how do you achieve both?” After giving this next question a few minutes of thought I stated to the Senior Master Sergeant “Take care of people.” This conversation always resonated with me in my military career and in later in life because it showed an
By Jason Sparks
Park University
Humanities
Dr. Young
I believe in good people with good morals and values, some of which being respect, loyalty and integrity. Although good people poses other great attributes I feel these are the three pillars that are the core. Throughout time these fundamental morals and values have been the back bone for different societies all over the world. During ancient times that respect, loyalty and integrity was given to the king or emperor, where now it’s important to carrying these values with most you come across. Carrying these values are important with most you come across now because to function in society in a positive way and these same values being returned they must be given. Starting with respect which is defined as a feeling of admiration for something or someone because of their or its qualities or achievements. From this definition I feel the key word is admiration, and it’s hard to admire something or someone without good qualities. Respect comes from people of all walks of life and in all kind of situations. For example while serving in the Air Force I noticed that a lot of military members seemed to have respect for a lot superior’s rank, but not the person. I began to notice this trend as a young airman when an older senior NCO pulled me aside and said to me “Hey Sparks, would you rather have respect for your rank or personality?” This was a question I pondered on for a bit and replied with the answer, “Both”. The reason I said both was because no matter what my rank was I wanted people to always respect me as a human being. After my reply the Senior NCO, next asked “Well Sparks how do you achieve both?” After giving this next question a few minutes of thought I stated to the Senior Master Sergeant “Take care of people.” This conversation always resonated with me in my military career and in later in life because it showed an