This is a beautiful letter and so eloquently crafted. I was taught about honour and integrity from a very early age by my grandparents, parents and various other family members — both male and female. More importantly, I was lucky enough to imbibe what honour and integrity means by watching how they conducted themselves in different situations.

I know honourable people exist because we see them around us, like you. They may be far and few between, but they exist. And like you rightly said, role models are so important. I am lucky enough to have/had many role models in my family who raised us to have honour and this was a responsibility that was assumed by grandfather, father, uncles and grandmother, mother, aunts alike.

It’s important that while we teach our daughters about what honour and integrity look like in young men, we also teach them to be honourable themselves.

Honour is, fortunately, not gender bound. This goes for both the person dispensing advice about how to conduct yourself with honour and integrity as well as the person receiving said advice. We should all attempt to live our lives with as much honour and integrity as possible. The world would be much improved for it.