Values make up who you are. They define your character. That makes them important

People have many different values for many different reasons. Some have the same values, some may place more of a value on one thing than another. This is what differs us from one person to the next.

Values are shaped and formed through different circumstances; how you may or may not have been brought up; through any religious beliefs you may hold; or even from just personal likes and dislikes. I would define a true value or values for anyone person are those values which are unaltering. No matter what happens our thoughts and opinions on that value are unchanging. Other values may become stronger or diminish depending on changes of circumstances; religious beliefs and such like.

These unchanging values are at the core of who we are. And it is these values which shape our life and actions maybe even subconsciously. For instance two values I hold close and dear which greatly affects how I personally live from day to day is the sanctity of marriage and waiting for then to have sex.

Now I could go on for sometime about this but the full discussion is not for here. I firmly believe that you should wait for the right person whom you want to share your life with and give yourself to them and them alone in sex because through that you become one with that person. How that affects my life is that it means I do not go out every weekend looking for any and every girl who is willing to help me achieve some cheap satisfaction. I believe that our female counterparts in this world deserve more respect than for males to go out pursuing them purely to fulfil their desires. That affects greatly how I treat women, I actually enjoy treating them with dignity and respect which is what every human being deserves.

Now that value is shaped by a number of factors. Firstly from my upbringing and how my mother taught me not to hit a girl, simple but that is where it started. Secondly from how my sisters have been ill treated by their partners, abused, hurt and left alone bringing up children. Also part of how this value comes from my Christian faith.

Circumstances and experience may both be the forces which shape our character but through that we institute our values. Values in a sense become the definition of the cumulative circumstances and experience that we have had throughout our lives. Through them they give insight into who you are.

Values are important. Without them we would be easily pursuaded, moved, changed. Without them we would not have an individual identity, it would constantly waver and change like the tide. I will say again values are important; know your values: know who you are.