Integrity

I am a pretty inconsistent person. My tastes in music, in food, in ideas will fluctuate wildly during even just the course of a day. I like this about myself, I consider it liberating not to be confined by a consistent personality, to be able to introspect and listen to what i actually feel rather than forcing myself into the shape of who i think i am.

But on the other side, I also try to have integrity. I remember my form tutor in secondary school at some point saying 'integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is looking', which i found really resonated with me. But I think that integrity is a bit more than that. I think it's about having deep rooted principles that i stick to no matter what. It's about having beliefs and values resilient to forces acting against it. It's about deeply caring about things in the world, even if it has a cost.