Character

Character is what you do when you know no one is looking.

Most people at some point in their lives encounter a situation where something is going on that is ethically or morally wrong, but in speaking up you can put your job or friendships in danger, or at the very least make you unpopular with people that can make your life hell.

My wife was recently in that kind of situation. This isn't a post about what had happened; it isn't my place, despite how very hard it is for me not to try to get the word out there at how outrageous the situation was.

This is about choices we make in that kind of situation. She chose to speak out. She didn't scream it from the top of the hills but she did do something that could make her unpopular with certain people in a position to make her life more difficult.

She chose to do what is right.

She could have stayed quiet, she could have rationalized away what had happened to help her sleep at night. But she actually chose to do something to try to right a wrong.

And I couldn't be more proud of her for it.