My Self-Reflection

Self-Reflection
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Moral behavior is the basis of peaceful communal coexistence. Personal core values help maintain a moral society because they guide people's behavior. These core values include integrity, honesty, responsibility, respect, servant leadership, loyalty, duty, honor, and personal courage. My core personal values are integrity and responsibility. Integrity entails knowing what to do right, when, and how to do it, and responsibility entails embracing opportunities and contributing positively. It also involves accepting the results of ones' actions. My choices conflicted with my core values and jeopardized my academic excellence. However, the consequences of my choices have taught me always to be true to myself and do the right thing.
I have always lived my core values of integrity and responsibility. I grew up knowing what is right and wrong as taught by my parents and always had personal reflection moments when I did what contradicts my core values. The reflection meant that I always took responsibility for my actions. Responsibility can be positive or negative. When it is positive, the reflection is congratulatory and rebuking when the responsibility response is negative. I acknowledge the punishment that follows unethical behavior. I take these punishments positively because I know it aims to correct my unethical behavior.
My choices made me lose my academic integrity because they went against the institution's academic code. They jeopardized my academic experience making me appear a dishonest and rude student. Students are in a continuous state of testing and training to ensure they graduate and become responsible citizens. These tests ensure that students follow academic integrity codes and punish them when they break the code (Mathrani et al., 2021). I acknowledge that I should not have posted the document on Chegg without my instructor's authority. Currently, my academic experience is challenging because my choices have made my instructor think negatively about me. I take full responsibility for my action and have already welcomed the punishment the offense attracts under the institution's code of academic conduct.
The consequences of my choices have extended to my social life. I cannot interact freely with my instructor, classmates, friends, and family members because of the guilt. The guilt makes me think that all my instructors know what I did and doubt my academic integrity. In the same way, I always think that my classmates, friends, and family members see me as a dishonest person who cannot be trusted with any responsibilities. This has affected me academically and psychologically, and I recently visited a psychologist who helped me deal with the situation. Thanks to him, I currently feel better.
The incident has taught me three lessons that will always guide my future decisions in similar scenarios. The first lesson I learned is that breaking trust affects a person mentally and psychologically, and it is challenging to reinstate the trust. When possible, people should not make mistakes that break their trust with others. The effects are detrimental, especially because a person feels guilty a...