I cannot think of any situations when my integrity has been severely tested like that but one thing does come to mind. I once had a blog in the ‘make money online’ niche and I used to promote several programs as an affiliate. I would talk at length on my blog about the amazing effects using said products had on my business and I sold a lot because of my recommendations. A few years later I started on the path that I am on now and I literally found it too painful to continue selling these products and talking about how great they were when in reality I had never even tried them.

I chose to honor myself and my future customers, so I deleted the blog and left that niche. Now I blog with truth and integrity and I ‘feel’ so much better for doing so.
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On Sunday I was out on a hike with my girlfriend in the woods close to my house. We drove there, parked and left the car in a parking lot to enjoy the first snow of the season. It was nearing dusk so it was a quick, but lovely hike.

When we got back to the car, though, I noticed that my gas cap was open. As a peeked around the van blocking my view, I noticed little shards of glass everywhere around the driver’s side of the car. The window was shattered, door wide open. Papers from the glove compartment were strewn all over the place. My GPS and iPod were gone. Then it all hit me at once. I. Was. Robbed.

It’s been a couple days, but the feeling is still sitting there at the bottom of my stomach. What integrity does someone like that have? Is it gone in its entirety? Just a vacant space left there to be filled with a strangers electronics?

Sadly the value of the incident fell just under my deductible with my insurance company. Surprisingly I’ve been told by multiple people that I should try to pad what’s been taken from me to make the claim go over my deductible by telling them there was more stuff taken. Do people normally do this? Although I hate the notion of insurance to an extreme case (I find it to be the biggest racket out there, just in front of the people pushing the global warming industry). I just don’t personally find it acceptable…
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In the heat of the moment, I don’t know if I would have let someone put a hole in the safety glasses or not, but I know for sure that I’d feel uncomfortable with it and wouldn’t follow through. Two things I value are honesty and accountability, both of which would be directly violated by pursuing a lawsuit.

I’m somewhat indifferent about a large insurance company being cheated out of money, but I think it would be a regretful mistake to think that I could live the life everyone dreams about by cheating someone else, even if it’s a large corporation that likely does a lot of cheating itself.

What’s most impressive about this story is that you acted with such integrity at just 21. Despite the unfortunate damage to your eye, I think it’s something to be proud of.
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