What is Personal Integrity? My Opinion

Literal Definition of Integrity:

Soundness. 2: adherence to a code of values. 3: COMPLETENESS.

Personal Definition of Integrity:

When in action, are you true to yourself? Let personal integrity be your guide. It is the foundation laid by a humans supposed standards at the beginning. At the end of the day, it is the simple truth of what one makes of it. It is a human being's moral compass. That is what personal integrity means to me.

It's meaning involves a rapture of different personal variances and meanings. Personal integrity is an unknown element to the world of science or any field of study, where a conceptual understanding of human beings is gathered. For all fringes on the very cord thereof the personal integrity of the persons gathering and inputting the data entries. After all, it is the governing body between what is right and what is wrong. With this in mind- suppose then the questions, is personal integrity a basic human instinct or is something that is taught by parents, neighbors, teachers or a superior? Is it something that can be learned through observation or discipline? What if you were born without it?

When it comes to understanding the foundations of integrity and finding examples of it. I look no further than the motion picture, Jerry McGuire. In this movie, Jerry McGuire is a Sports Agent, who loses his job as an Agent to elite athletes, due to a "Mission Statement" or memo. In the movie, he writes the mission statement as a prequel to change. Jerry felt it was wrong to talk his clients into doing something that was life threatening, in order for him to receive his commission checks. His consciousness would no longer allow it. After the neatly banded mission statement was sent to all employees of the firm he worked, he was fired by a friend. In order to prove himself, he opens up his own agency based off personal attention and personal service. His company's niche in the world of promoting elite athletes, is his personal integrity.

At one point in the movie, Jerry is trying to sign a new an upcoming superstar. He flies to Texas and speaks to the boy's father. When Jerry asks him to sign a contract, the father tells Jerry he's isn't much on signing contracts. But his word is, "Stronger than Oak." In this statement, the father declares to Jerry McGuire that he has a strong, fierce moral fiber and his word- his personal integrity is as strong as an Oak tree. The statement leads Jerry McGuire's thinking into believing, that this man's integrity is stronger than greed, indecision, carelessness and personal interpretations. Needless to say in the end, Jerry McGuire is the only one left standing with his moral fibers intact. As in real life, everyday people, are struck with dilemma's that may or may not "affect or attack" their conscience.

In the world of Warner Brothers' animations, personal integrity is defined as a character to the viewer. This character of integrity, often takes on the shape of a blue, colored angel or a red, colored devil. The angel sits on the right hand shoulder and the devil would be position to the left hand side. The characters are often portrayed in a moment where a philosophical judgment takes place. Bringing out the basis of devilish inclinations that would leave someone with a comprised and damaged integrity.

The misunderstood realms of integrity often get lost in translation when combining with religion.  In Judaism- personal integrity seems to be more weighted and not so easily forgiven as that of Christianity. For forgiveness isn't an acute action, but a long determined process. Forgiveness comes on Judgment Day. That is when good and evil are separated and engulfed in battle. Jews believe it is then, when a person's integrity, is divided between rights and wrongs over that person's lifetime.

I don't know if integrity can be observed or taught through discipline. Each brings out the question, as too, "What is the moral compass of said adviser imposing the lesson?" To which I'll leave my stead and say that I'll save that for a later date. Personal integrity is the bread & butter of who and what you are. If you question your own moral compass. Ask yourself a all or one of these questions;

• If you are handed to much change during a cash transaction, do you give it back?
• If you have already made a promise to one, but got a better offer. Do you break your promise?
• Do you take credit for other peoples work?

If you've answered "Yes" to two of the three questions- or "NO" to the first question. You could be a person with little integrity and not trust worthy.