Honor

What is Honor? Honor is basically trustworthiness. It means you're true to your word. You honor your contracts. It also means you're true to the unwritten contract you should have with others... that whole "Golden Rule" thing. That's kind of "your word" as well. People trust you (or should be able to trust you) to treat them with a certain amount of respect.

Trust! Why should you trust people? You can't trust people, right? Not true. You really can't get through life without trusting people. You do it every day. Best example: every time you get out on the road, you trust that the people in the other lane won't swerve into your lane. You trust that people will stop at stop signs and red lights. Sometimes we actually put a little too much trust in this, but it's true -- do you ALWAYS look way down the road in each direction before you step on the gas? Admit it. Much of the time you just push the pedal when the light turns green unless you happen to catch a sign of danger out of the corner of your eye.

You put your money in the bank, fully expecting to get it back when you want it. You go to work for a week or two or a month trusting that you will get paid. Oh, sure, it's backed up by contracts and laws, but you also trust that the contracts and laws will be enforced if you don't get your money.

You trust people every day. You like the ones you can trust. You don't like the ones you can't. So you should be a person they can trust. Everything works better that way, and you are then a part of making a better world. Something as simple as showing up when you say you will makes the world a better place for those waiting on you, and it all eventually comes back to you.

Being untrustworthy, or not honorable is like spitting in the wind. In the words of an obscure band (Radiator) I once stumbled across...

It's like spittin' in the wind
It all comes back on you
It's like spittin' out the window
You're all right now, Jack,
But it all comes back
On you

By being honorable, you add to the reservoir of good will in the world. By not being honorable, you are a drain on the good will in the world.

If you're not a part of the solution.....