Scouts, if you loosen five or six adjoining spokes on a bicycle wheel, it will warp out of shape so that it no longer makes a perfect circle, it is no longer “true”. Pretty soon you’re going to have a bumpy ride and the wheel will rub on one or both sides of the frame.
Your character is something like a bike wheel. The spokes are a series of rules that in Scouting we call the Scout Law. The points of our Scout Law are guides to help you stay straight and true. If you get loose and sloppy on any point of the Scout Law, the result will be the same as loosening the spokes on a bike wheel. Your personality will be warped and out of shape.
One way to stay true to yourself is to see that your observance of the Scout Law is always foremost in your mind.
So when doubts creep in and you consider violating one of the points of the Law, think about the warped, out of shape bike wheel and resolve to live up to the ideals of Scouting. Resolve to be true to the scout law, resolve to be true to yourself.
