Sometime ago, I used to wonder what influences people's choice or decision. Life experiences is one and another is personal values....which stands for what you hold important, be it in character or principles. They practically make up your personality as a person and how people see you. There are people who due to their personal values are being respected or avoided, as it spells out who you are. Not just that it keeps you in check on the long run. Your personal values let you know what you stand for as an individual and also be the real you....just as we vary in faces, so are our values.

Now to my top three personal values....

Simplicity

As we live and as we are, Simplicity – with a capital ‘S’ – is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Simplicity is an important value for me, maybe it's due to my upbringing or experiences in life, I have just just grown to prefer being simple.....a simple lifestyle, appreciating the little things. Also, we come across complicated situations already in our daily life, so I don't think I'd want complicated method in dealing with them. Being simple makes life easy as it helps you avoid unnecessary drama or pressures when they come.

Open mindedness

An open-minded person sees life without boundaries, whereas a close-minded person can only see what's beyond their eyes. ~ Kaoru Shinmon

This is another value I take to be important as it involves being accepting of others or their ideas. Understanding that other people's ideas or views are to be respected even if you don't agree with them. I am an open minded person who is ready to listen and most importantly ask lot of questions.

Optimism

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. – Lucille Ball

For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use to be anything else. – Winston Churchill

There are times we experience rough and bad days.....or be in situations where we just have to bite our lips down in pain, days which cannot be entirely avoided. However, how we react during these period matters more. Growing up, I have come to learn and make a habit out of seeing the bright side of very situation. It is a difficult thing to do I must say, but we need something to hold onto...to hope on.

Being optimistic doesn't mean everything is okay at the moment, instead it means you see a possibility of things being okay even when they are not.

There are a whole lot of values which are also very important, but like I said just like our faces are different so are our personal values.