What Determines Honor?

Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, form our true honor. Samuel Coleridge

One of the main parts of a warrior’s honor is his strong sense of obligation. It is the warrior’s duty to recognize and fulfill his various obligations in life. The fulfillment of one’s obligations seems to be forgotten by the majority of people in today’s society, thus this is another trait which sets the true warrior apart from the average person. Most upstanding people remember certain obligations in life such as providing for their family, but for many, that is pretty much where their sense of obligation ends.

It is different for the warrior. Honor requires the warrior to take his sense of obligation more seriously than the average man on the street. Not only does the warrior feel a strong sense of responsibility for providing for his family, but he is also honor bound to fulfill his various other obligations in life.

At this point, you may be wondering what other obligations the warrior has other than to be a good person and to provide for his family. Actually, those are the obligations that everyone in a civilized society should adhere to; the warrior’s obligations go much deeper because of his own personal code of honor. Bohdi Sanders ~ excerpt from the #1 Bestseller, MODERN BUSHIDO: Living a Life of Excellence, available from Amazon at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008S26INK or from The Wisdom Warrior website at: https://thewisdomwarrior.com.