Doing the popular thing versus doing the right thing.

This last week I learned a few things about myself and those who I affiliate myself with. In life we are being tested on doing the popular thing versus doing the right thing. I had to make a choice this week to do the right thing and people in my life are a bit disappointed. What I discovered from this incident (in which I will not speak of) is that I must stand for what is right. This culture in which we live is a culture based on 'me' and how 'I' feel. That is not what life is about. I think about people throughout history who had to stand for what was right not what was popular. I think about the American South and how the civil rights workers had to do the right think over the popular thing. The story of Christ is a story that is based on doing the right thing over the popular thing and thank God that Jesus did the right thing. I was reading a quote by George Bernard Shaw that said, "Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world." What I believe that we as a society doesn't seem to get is that the decisions we make are the ones we will have to deal with in the future. See when doing the wrong thing only exacerbates the problem, also doing the wrong thing will affect those around you; usually putting those people around you in a very bad place. We have to live with every decision we make in life and we you life is over and you are at your day of judgment don't you want our creator to say, "Well done my good and faithful servant." I know I do.