When did I recently feel honor? Did I feel honored at the not-so-bad appraisal that I got last year.On the contrary I felt humbled.Did I feel honored when I won the WACC photography competition - I felt good maybe but not honored.Did I feel honored by the bravo remarks for the various small acts - a good strike on a carrom board , a good solution at the workplace , a good piece of appreciation for an opinion that I put forth/the spirit that I put forth.May be?
Honour is acknowledgement - is it? Is honour the acknowledgement by others ? Or is honor the acknowledgement of oneself by oneself.
I think it is time to look at the dictionary now.This is what dictionary.com says
honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: aman of honor.
Honestly, this is what I was coming to because that is what I felt as I was taking a walk with my daughter.Honor is about living by what you believe in.If I think that running behind money does not feel right and living with freedom by one's convictions is what matters and I still run after money, then I am not leading a life of honor
Honor and integrity.I am reminded of a silly fight with a friend.My contention was not that the action/words from his side were intolerable - what was intolerable was that he did it and it did not fit into his character.It was perfectly fine if someone else did the same.This again brings up disintegrity.
Why this honor? Why must your actions be in line with your thoughts? Your being realises the incoherence and you start feeling a discomfort. There is a being somewhere within you that is neither your thoughts nor your actions nor your achievements.This guys feels right if you are all integrity and honor.
No wonder that I have not felt honor for a long time because I am leading more or less a run-of -the-mill lifestyle while my thoughts yearn for putting themselves into practice
To be honorable, you need to follow your heart fully...
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