PRINCIPLE

We all have that one person who we termed to be principled because of how they tend to do their things and live their lives in a defined, well-detailed, laid out format with rules to serve as a guide for them. The rules do not apply to them alone but also to everyone who interacts and has any form of relationship with them. The rules help us to know our boundaries with them; answer the WH-Question of anything we want to do with them; help us to understand them better and interact well with them and also prevent the uprising of quarrels/disagreements, that is, we get a perfect understanding of their personalities.
The society we find ourselves has tagged those with principles “strict”, “wicked”, “weird”, sometimes ”inhumane”. Unfortunately, these are not so true as some principled people have a good heart plus conscience and are considerate while some are principled but with a bad heart and this set of people are the bad eggs who corrupt the good principled people.
You can decide to live a principled life. All that matters are do it with a good heart, live well and do not let your so-called principles make life difficult for people. You are free to design what kind of life you want for yourself but in all your doings, try not to be too self-centered. Be free and real. Live with good principles. Let your principles make way for people and also reshape their lives.

By Akinleye Grace
@grace_akinleye