Reflective Essay: My Definition Of Honesty

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My definition of honesty is being true and sincere in what you are saying and/or doing. Honesty is not necessarily equal to being a good person, however, honesty is a matter of being truthful towards your actions. For my one of my classes, I had an assignment where I had to be honest about questions according whether or not I am a good student; such as whether or not I write papers the day before they are due, or whether or not I cram the day before an exam, etc. Being honest in this assignment was hard, due to the fact that honesty about whether or not you crammed an easy the day before it was due, is not something you want to tell your teacher. Doing this assignment I was very mindful about being honest, despite the fact that it would lower …show more content…
Thursday the 10th we are having a barbeque with everyone from ISA where everyone who has time has to bring some food or a snack. I signed up for bringing something, however, I knew that I was not going to be able to/did not have the time go to the grocery store to buy what was needed. When I say this, I know this is dishonest, because of course I could have found 30 minutes to go to the grocery store to pick up a salad. However, instead of being honest and saying that I did not believe I had the time to go pick up something at the grocery store, I said that I was going to come right after practice (which is true) and I was not sure whether or not I could make the barbeque because of my practice – not true. I knew I was being dishonest, and that it was not being a Good Samaritan, nonetheless, I did not feel like I had the time to go to the grocery store to buy something for the barbeque. It made me feel bad for lying, especially because they were making a great event for everyone, and I felt like a bad person for being dishonest. Thinking in an aspect of other points of views, it would have been awful if I would have said that “I just did not want to go to the grocery store” or “I cannot find 30 minutes to buy a snack for the barbeque”, because everyone else was helping out. I wanted to be honest, however, it felt like it would have given me a bad image. In the end though, I think it made me think poorer about myself than anyone else would think, which is actually a good thing, because then I will think more about my actions in the future and whether or not I am being

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