Life: "No One Has Integrity And Here's Why" By alx.O
When I hear the word integrity, immediately my mind goes to all the great people in history who’ve made a difference in the world. Almost instantly, I can see Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela, Maya Angelou, Teddy Roosevelt, Ernest Hemingway, Oprah and so many others. Yet what escapes me when I do, is that neither of them actually had integrity. In fact, no one actually does. Integrity is not a trait, an object or a possession that one can have. It’s not even a tangible thing. No, integrity is a practice and much like all practices, you are measured by how well you do when tested. These great people are great not because of their ownership of integrity but because of how well they practiced integrity while being tested. Which leads me to my recent life lesson about the practice of integrity. It was the middle of the week and I was rushing to close a rental transaction that I was working on. Under normal circumstance this process would’ve been way smoother but because the l...
