Integrity

I always imagined that to have ‘integrity’ was to have a set of ideas/ideals and to stick up for them when they are pressed or challenged, in other words, to not be a hypocrite. I guess I imagined, too, that one had to have some courage, though I didn’t think that through.

But I have recently learned that integrity is deeper than that.

To have integrity one has to have a ‘self’, a personality, a center, a simultaneously emotional and rational character that is not merely reactive, but cohesive within itself from which you interact with the world and the people around you.

I actually had never imagined that there were people who didn’t.

But there are.