“You won’t ever see a person with good character and integrity trying to prove to anyone they are a good person.  They are authentic in the way they move and have nothing to prove,” Daniel Chidiac.  Good people don’t need to explain that they are good people.  I spent a lot of time justifying crappy behavior in others because I witnessed a few human moments in people.  But those moments became their hallmark while they continued to behave in other questionable and outright awful ways.  We know those people.  Their energy gives them away and we know when they aren’t being authentic.  Sometimes the sun is out when it rains just the same as even the darkest cloud of a person can occasionally let the light shine through.  That doesn’t mean their character is good.  The nicest people have moments where they break down and snap as well.  That doesn’t mean their character is bad.

We carry both the light and dark in us, we are human.  It’s fine to make mistakes, but it isn’t ok to create chaos for others or cause harm to others for our own sake.  When we hear the justification of bad behavior over and over again, and the person knows they did something wrong yet they continue with the behavior in spite of the consequences, that makes them suspect.  Authentic people stand behind what they say and they keep their word and they stick to their values.  That isn’t anything that needs to be proven.  The meat is in the action and you will often be able to tell a person’s character long before you get to know them because you will see them doing the things that align with their beliefs.  They aren’t out to show the world what they are doing, they aren’t doing it for the accolades—they are doing it because it’s who they are.  Remember that and remember to move that way ourselves.  Like attracts like so our authenticity will call to the authenticity in others.  Be a good person, be true to your word, and you can’t go wrong.