Ethics

The ethics in my life has been taught to me mostly by my mom, who is responsible for who I am today. Ever since kindergarten, I’ve been taught to treat others how I would like to be treated. It’s true that the Golden Rule is one of the most important rules.
My mom is a strong believer in karma and she has taught be that if you do the right thing, it will come back to you. I’ve never been a bully, and I feel I have always been welcoming and friendly to people who needed it.

Growing up, I was around my brother a lot, and I saw who his friends were. He used to have a friend in junior high that I hated, and who used to be so mean to me. We would get in actual physical fights and it would end up with him hurting me. I knew that if I was the older sibling I wouldn’t be friends with people that wouldn’t even respect my sibling, or even hurt them. They are not friends anymore, and I don’t know where that guy is now, but last time I heard he was getting into a lot of trouble. I learned what types of friends I wanted to have by seeing what types of friends my brother had.

The basic ethics I have been taught are to be able to differentiate right from wrong. When I see something that I don’t think is right, and I’m sure that my mom wouldn’t think is right, I stay away from it. Of course, I’m a teenager, so I do what I want a lot of the times but I make sure that I am being responsible and not causing harm to anyone.

My peers and friends don’t influence my ethics as much as my family did growing up, because by the time I started making a concrete group of friends, my ethics were already established. However, I know that if I ever do something out of line, my friends will call me out and set me back on track.