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Today's
Meditation:
We all are role models. Other people--younger
and older people and people our own ages--look to us to
see our behaviors, to see how we act in certain
situations. We rarely notice just how much our
behavior affects others; if we noticed, it would be much
easier for us to make decisions based on what we want to
show other people about who we are and what we stand for.
The problem with not noticing is that we start to think
that our actions truly don't matter to anyone else, that
they don't affect anyone else at all. And because of
that, we don't tend to live up to high standards all the
time, and we don't tend to stand for important things that
could help us to be stronger people. We don't tend
to make our decisions and act based on principles and
ideals; rather, we make many or our decisions based on
expediency and personal gain--not keeping in mind that
there is someone watching us, looking at us as a model.
If we do consciously live our lives as models for others,
we can assure ourselves that we will live according to
principals, and that we will make decisions based upon
those principals. Ethics will be important to us,
and we'll want other people to be able to genuinely trust
us. Being a role model is a huge responsibility, and
we know that we must act strongly to live up to that
responsibility.
We'd be surprised, I think, at what other people notice
about us. We'd be dismayed sometimes at the things
they choose to emulate about us--the little white lies,
the swearing, the way they treat other people. If we
truly want to be positive role models, then we must live
positive lives--there's no room for deceiving ourselves or
deceiving others.
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