What is a good character? This may seem like a simple question, yet it may be a complicated one, too. But there are many different ways to describe someone who has good character, and some of the qualifications are honesty, loyalty, and faith. However, character is not something someone is born with, it is the development of one’s personality and individuality which identifies them based off their ethnic, cultural, and academic background. When you think of a person with good character, you might think of someone with integrity. Integrity means that you have a set of certain values that you live by day to day, which one creates due to their experiences. With this integrity, you make positive choices, hold specific morals in the overall situation, and are constructive and encouraging for others despite of there being wrongs or rights; because these ideals are what make a good character. A character that sums up these qualities, actions and tendencies distinguishes them from others due to their knowledge, and makes them who they are, which is admirable.
A prime example to a “good character” in my life that helps me distinguish this ideal would have to be my mother. She has a good heart, benevolent feelings, and a balanced mind. She knows how to reduce stress level for anyone even if she’s the one filled with nerves. She continues to portray trustworthy actions, respectful manners, responsible decisions, fair performances, caring deeds, and good citizenship. And even though many do not display such significant traits, she knows how to pass them down to others like me. When I was younger, she revealed to me that there is evil and good. Generally, there are two sides to every coin. For example, without evil, there can be no good to begin with. However, we hardly think of good and evil, and go what we were influence to do.
There are many key factors which facilitate good and evil acts: patterns of childhood, societal pressure where one lives in such as: family, school, peers or friends. In my opinion, family is the most important factor influencing human behavior and attitude awareness, and she was that major influence that shows it to me. At a basic level, she told me “being a good person is someone who always obeys life’s rules in society.” Good people always respect the rights of other human beings, as pressured by the laws of nature, in the same way that they would want to be respected. However, “having a good character is someone who has stable and distinctive qualities built into an individual’s life which determine his or her response regardless of circumstances. You don’t even keep in mind which is good or evil for society, but do something instantaneously that you believe to do due to your influences.” These influences are what create a good character in anyone, and help others be able to distinguish you as who you are, which is something my mother can demonstrate. That is why I am here this very day by being steered and influenced based off her experiences.
Overall, everyone has character. People sometimes think of character as something a person either has or doesn’t have. Otherwise, my mother displays that strong and “good” character, and has assemblage of qualities that distinguish her as so. Whether or not one agrees, she will always be the greatest definition of a good character in my eyes.