Amyia Noble

Ms.Carroll

American Literature

7 April 2019

10 Rules To Live By

Do you know what consists of being a good person? If not ,here are some rules

to being a good person. Rule number one is, ​Do No Harm.​ The reason why this rule is

said because as it being natural duties your suppose to know that hurting someone or

yourself isn’t the right thing to do. If you hurt someone or yourself then you don’t love

yourself and that brings me to Rule number two, ​Love Yourself. ​The reason why this

rule is established is because a lot of times in this day of time so many people are sad,

mad and uncomfortable with themselves and that's the number one reason why we

should love each other because if we love ourselves then , then spreading love wouldn’t

be to much of a problem. Rule number three , ​Remember Nobody Is Perfect​. The

reason for this rule is for you to be a good person as it being your natural duty to be a

good person, knowing someone isn’t perfect is the best thing to do to be a good person,

this shows you won’t judge a books by its cover because you're not perfect yourself so

why expect someone to be when you know our world isn’t built to have everything

perfect. These rules are here for you to be a good person,being a good person comes

with a more happier and healthier life. Rule number four, ​Have Confidence. ​When you

have confidence , it opens a lot of doors in your life to become happy and succfselvful,
when you have confidence you know who you are and what you wanna do with your

life, having confidence helps you be the bigger person, it helps you help people and not

be scared to talk to people you wouldn’t usually talk to. Rule number five, ​Put others

​ utting other first is like a consequentialist framework because putting other first is
first. P

an act of voluntary obligation, when you put others first you are doing good towards

them and yourself because in the long run he good you did will come back to you, so it’s

like a karma. Rule number six is ​Have An Open Mind And Heart. ​ When having an

open mind/heart you won’t be subjected to have hate in you, because hate has no good.

Being open means you won’t see anybody lower than you because in your eyes you love

them just the way they are. Rule number seven is​ Have Respect. ​Respect is a natural

duty because if you were brought up to know how to treat people then you will get the

same treatment back but this also falls in duty framework because your parents told you

to respect people no matter what and this is a good thing to know to be a good person.

​ o be a good person having an eye for an eye is

Rule number eight ​No Eye For An Eye. T

not an ethical decision to make. Doing someone wrong because they did you wrong isn’t

going to justify our hurt, it’s only going to make it worse and for you to do to tit for tat

isn’t showing how good of a person you are, turning the other cheek is the right thing to

do because like I stated before karma comes around and goes around whether good or

​ aving courage defines how strong you are, it

bad. Rule number nine is ​Have Courage. H

shows you can handle hard situations and get the best outcome you can, having courage

lets you break down barriers you won't be able to breakdown if you don't have the

courage to do so, courage shows you are good person to help and fight for what you
believe in. Rule number ten is ​Be Patience( for those who wait good things shall

happen). ​ ​When you have patience in life and not rush to get what you want, things in

life will fall into place if you wait and do what’s most important first. When rushing to

get things that makes you happy you may hurt people while doing it or maybe go about

it wrong so being a good person means you wait for your blessings. In conclusion these

10 rules to live by will help you to be a good person and live a happier well deserved

life.