FreeWriteHouse Party Day 44: My Ever Changing Core Values

Core Values

I saw this prompt hours ago before I went to bed last night. Nothing came to me. I thought hard of my core values. I thought about what it meant to me as a kid and now someone with kids.

When I was growing up, religion played a very big role. Not that we were very religious (My brother says religion is for the middle class. The poor were busy surviving, and the rich, money over rides). When I started going to school, I went for my catechism classes. Well, at lease when Sister Lawrence managed to drag my sorry ass in. I went to church every Sunday and at one point every morning to accompany my aunty. Confession, Bible, Rosary, the works. I even fought with my dad once because he said Hinduism was the first religion, and he said it with so much pride I got angry. Didn't talk to him for 2 weeks. He converted to marry my mum. So my core values then were just about everything the religion thought.

Then in my twenties, I started reading a lot of New Age books like the Celestine Prophecy, Way of The Peaceful Warrior. I was also fascinated with death. the after life and end of the world. Suddenly, religion the way I knew it started to shift. Of course, religion is always a sensitive issue so I will not delve too much into it. Besides I only have 5 minutes. But suddenly, I didn't feel I needed to protect or champion any one Religion. It wasn't a competition. They all seem to have the basic core values. And to me, it was a way to The Power That Be. It didn't matter if I was taking the bus or the train, I was headed for the same destination.

Then I had kids, and again some of my values started shifting. I needed to find the balance between acceptance in social gatherings and sharing my ideas and thoughts. Again, what I stood by before the kids came along, needed some editing and tweaking.

But there is one core value in all of this that has remained with me from as far back as I can remember. The one thing that ran through all the different phases in my life, through my thoughts and action, and that has been Love and its manifestations.

Love and Kindness, this is the one thing I teach my kids over and above everything. My only hope is they will find their footing, and find the Core Values that make them people who become gifts to the world, no matter how big or small their contributions may be.

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