What Does Integrity Mean To Me

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Integrity means to me being right all the time. My life it is nothing like integrity it is totally the opposite, I am like never right over half the time. Being 100% honest isnt me when it comes to being around home, but at school to my teachers, to my friends i'm about 70% honest. I can admit I have done many things wrong and i regret them, but when i do right i still feel like i'm doing wrong. When I have first shot my paintball gun and it hit my car, it felt so wrong to lie and tell my parents a whole different story then what really happened, but I felt like i had to lie because i didn't want to have to suffer the consequences they could have gave me. In the end i eventually told them the truth and didn't have to suffer anything but the …show more content…
There is nothing right about shooting someone unless they attack you first. What is the point of shooting someone? To make life suck even more in prison? In my opinion prison doesn't sound like a real fun place to be in, unless I don't like the outside world and would rather spend the rest of my life in prison. Now I have seen some people do right/ or heard some do right, maybe like holding the door for some old lady/man that couldn't open the door by themselves, or someone on the side of the road with a car that has been broke down. Many people have done wrong and many have done right. It is really nice to do the right, but can also be nice to do wrong then go back and turn what had happened into the right decision. In our society there is still nothing but wrong and right, sometimes you have to do wrong to do right. Speeding! Everyone in the teenage years and throughout I know have sped once in their life time, maybe because they were late getting somewhere, or maybe even showing off for someone in the car next to them. No speeding is not right considering its a law, but for some others breaking the law can save someone's life. For my personal experience with my Aunt’s watering breaking. My mother and I had to rush her to the

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