Self Actualization and Communal Responsibility

la Brea Hil

     “A man of character is a man of wealth.” This was a quote that Dr. Segun Gbadegesin used on Mondays freshman seminar class, when discussing the topic of Self Actualization and Communal Responsibility. Dr. Gbadegesin started his lecture of with a story about a girl name Iwa, character. The stories purpose was to simply inspire and show how having character and building character is very important for us as students and as blacks. The lecture based was based on this whole concept of character which shows to be the foundation of our ancestors. He goes on to say that “good character is beauty; good character is greatest talisman good character is essence of religion. I was really thrilled by the cultural performance. I think that the music and clothing that Dr. Gbadegesin showed us was very interesting and made me feel more involved as a student. “A man of character is a man of wealth,” this quote was the most important to me and grabbed my attention the most. I think that this is important because character defines who you are and what others will see you to be. When people describe you, they will describe your character quality, that’s why it’s important to build good character. You’re a person of wealth when you have character because character is something that makes you successful and no matter what happen it’s something that no one can take away but yourself. As students we should realize the importance in our character and in who we are. We obviously have some sort of character if we made it this far, but we must continue to build on it and take more notice of it.