Oct. 31

Oct. 31: Halloween is my most favorite day of the year. I love dressing up, seeing others dressed up, decorating, eating candy, making gory foods, and especially trick or treating. Tonight my boyfriend had a dance competition that he was going to be in. This wasn’t my ideal Halloween choice of activity, and I really wanted to go trick or treating. He wanted me to be there to support him.

I could have made something up to tell him that I couldn’t go to his dance competition and could have been selfish and did what I wanted to do more. Instead, I thought about him and willingly went to the competition and supported him from start until finish. By thinking of others and being honest with them I was building character and had integrity.

Oct. 30

Oct. 30: Today I went to work. I was in the small office where there is only one other co-worker. It’s easy to surf the internet and do personal things since I work on the computer and my boss or anyone else who cares isn’t there to tell me that I’m not supposed to do that. I was tempted to watch a TV show on the internet while I Photoshopped images for my job, and it felt okay to watch a TV show since I was allowed to listen to music and they’re basically the same thing. They also never specified that watching TV shows wasn’t allowed.

In the back of my mind I felt that I shouldn’t do that and that it would be too distracting even though nobody would know. I decided just to listen to music like I’ve been okayed to do. By doing this I was honoring and respecting my job and also my boss for trusting me with my position.