What is honor? What does it mean to be honorable? Honor is something that someone must strive for. Honor is to treat others in such a way that is honoring their choices, as long as their choices are not harming others.

When individuals honor other individuals it is like a constant cycle. Egos are no longer relevant when people honor other people. Be it the Queen of England, or a homeless man wandering, you should honor them.

This is realization that derives from understanding the true nature of our existence. Every person is different, everyone has their opinions and their understandings. Therefore every person is unique, and infinitely valuable. Humans don’t want to suffer, they want to be happy, and that happiness takes on different forms due to the lack of honor.

Cruel men who are in control who are dishonorable mislead us and guide us to hating one another and living in fear. Honor allows us to stop ourselves from acting in non-excellent ways. Never assume that you understand another individual, and if they say something you don’t understand, make conversation in order to understand them.

If you do not make this conversation, you are essentially implying that their understanding to you is worthless, and you do not care about it. To understand others is one of the greatest things we can do, but in today’s world we focus so much on trying to make other things match our understandings.

This is especially destructive when it comes to people because, without honor, we devalue the existence of others. We imply, I don’t want you to be this way, and you need to be the way I want you to be. This is sinister because it destroys both individuals. The one who is being told who to be is being told that their existence is not important, and that the perceived existence by the other is more important. The one who is telling someone who to be is growing their ego, fooling themselves into thinking things must be my way.

Both of these cases are bad, but the latter case is dangerous. Because to say this is to deny the way of things, the nature of their existence. Instead of working with that way of existence to transform it in a most excellent and honorable way, the existence is nullified. Nullifying the existence would mean that the individual is broken and becomes nothing. Then they are given something to be, something that is not them.

This is why we must have honor, and honor our own existence and principles. We must honor the choices of others and if needed, we can work to change them. But if you want to understand another individual you cannot do it without honoring them, without working to understand them. If you wish for people to be excellent, honor them, if you wish to be an excellent person yourself, honor others. In this world, honor dies out, and is replaced with an assumed sense of superiority. “I am greater than all men, because I realize I am greater than none.”