Principles

Daily writing prompt

What principles define how you live?

Principles? Things that define how I live? How the hell should I know? How about Don’t Be a Dick? How’s that one float your boat?

Okay… let’s see what I can come up with here… My family comes first. My wife and my step kids are put ahead of everything else in existence. After that comes my extended family and my job. Are those principles? I don’t know.

The more I think of it, don’t be a dick seems more and more like the correct answer to this question. How other people go about their day to day and live their lives is up to them. Let them do their thing. Live and let live. If you are happy in your life then I am happy for you and I will stand by your choices. Something like that. Don’t be an asshole, be an ally. Compassion and understanding above all, even if I don’t understand right off the bat.

Does any of this make sense? I doubt it but they are my principles not anyone else’s, so as long as it makes sense to me on some level then we’re doing okay, right? Right.