A Virtue I Admire, A Virtue That Pays Virtues

I've read so many entries regarding this HL topic and I felt a lot have been said, different virtues and I couldn't think of any that haven't been written on. Having to choose just one virtue that I could forgive everything for, that got me thinking a little more harder especially with the fact that it has to be the winning virtue over other virtues.

Well, I feel every virtue are important and have their role to play in the lives of humans. There is no best virtue or should I say, no less virtue as each of them found in a person is one to admire.

But I thought of one that pays every virtue and that I admire so much in people that have them... Hard work

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I've said it a few times before that I'm not the hard working kind, I can get very lazy sometimes but there are a few things I do that I can get very enthusiastic about so my laziness won't show on those aspect. As a lazy but not so lazy person, I admire hard working people.

I love honesty, simplicity, being genuine, empathy and a lot of other virtues in humans and I feel these virtues should be found in everyone of us. I love and could forgive anyone if the person is hardworking too. I'm not saying there won't be other reasons to forgiving such a one but I feel a hardworking person has all it takes to build the other virtues.

I've seen what laziness could cause that builds bad situations, ugly experiences and worse, even death cases. Hardworking people tend to live well especially the ones who are creative with it and does it for the good of themselves and others. I've seen how hard work virtue takes people to higher heights in life.

A personal story

I've once lived with two roommates while running a year's program. The program extended to a year and a few months so I had to keep staying with my two roommates but I couldn't bear to stay with one of them. The reason was clear, she was way lazier than I was. I hated the fact that I was lazy so I thought it was bad enough having my lazy self in the room then having one more person join me 😅

It's not that I drove her away from my room though, it just made me admire my other room mate even more with the way she did most of the work and didn't complain any day. It was like a habit for her as she never let the work load in the house become too much before she starts working.

Living with a hard working person opened my eyes to see that laziness is bad and I needed to change my ways. That virtue in her inspired me to do better but my other roommate never let all that get to her, she just enjoys not doing anything and eat whenever she wanted.

I can still remember how I easily forgive one but not the other even though everything wasn't so serious, we were good pals so we always try to forgive as quick as possible but I would always seem partial when it comes to my hardworking friend, you won't blame me lol.

Hard work is a virtue I admire and I think it pays other virtues, I hope more lazy people find the importance in being hardworking.