On My Honor Book Report

“On My honor…” These three simple words have been apart of my life since I was in first grade. It has been the start of an oath that inspired me through the 11 year struggle to completing Eagle Scout. All the late nights, long summer days, and hours of constant work has taught me a thing or two. Eagle Scout is no easy thing to get and it required the use of many skills and resources including perseverance, an openness to learn, and the most important resource of all people. Ask any Eagle Scout and they will tell you that there was a point in their time of being a Cub/ Boy scout where they wanted to quit. A time when they wanted to just give up and not be pushed to their limits. Everyone had different reasons for wanting to quit but the thing that separated the Boy Scouts from the Eagle Scouts was that the Eagle Scouts did not quit. It took a lot of perseverance to stick with Scouting for 11 years out of my 18 year life. All the long physically straining hikes and the late nights of extensive planning it took to get my Eagle Scout project approved sometimes made me question scouting but i stuck with it and i’m better for it.
My Boy Scout troop was majority non-white members. Living North Texas i was not really exposed or challenged to learn about other cultures. I was challenged as the patrol leader to learn and accommodate these differences accordingly. Learning these differences helped avoid fights when it came to planning meals for campouts, how to observe sunday mornings, and overall conversations around the campfire. It was essential to be open to learn these things or else there would have been much disagreement and disunity in an organization that teaches the