The Value of your Values

Along life's road, we all run into rough patches, and we all make wrong turns. Sometimes we make decisions we will regret, and find that we've lost something of ourselves along the way. But when you come to those moment's remember: Whether it's your pride, your integrity, your self-respect, or any of your principles, these things are not like a ring that slips off your finger and is never found. They are like a house that you've always lived in, and now you've given someone else a mortgage on. Title may be clouded, but you still can redeem it. Whether or not you choose to is up to you. As these are values, they have value, and getting them back is never going to be easy. And there will always be those around you that will cluck their tongues and never let you live it down. Of course, most of those people, like Fox News consultant Newt Gingrich lording his virtue over Eliot Spitzer, either never had the values to begin with, or granted someone that lien a long time ago, but hell will freeze before they'll ever admit it. But if they matter enough to you to make the sacrifices necessary to regain clear title, nothing else will matter. Just don't give up.