Please Value Your Reputation

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A good name is better than riches. That's why i value my reputation but not everyone does the same thing. A reputation is something that cannot be bought or sold. We earn it by our actions, by how we speak, how we dress, by our attitudes. A good reputation is not easily acquired. It may take as years or decades to builda good reputation. But a good reputation built for years can be ruined in just a minute. It's hard to maintain a good reputation when bad things are just so tempting. But i don't believe in resorting to ruining your reputation to earn a living or to make it up to this demanding world. Oftentimes people do wrong things and thus damage their reputation, and they all have common things to blame: their poverty, their being less fortunate, their lack of this or that. They justify a worng by the end they are trying to achieve. There are more people less fortunate than you are right now. Go to third world countries and you will find the people am talking about. And yet these people manage it out living with a good reputation to be proud of. Now, do i have to say, "If they can, why can't you"? Nothing justifies a wrong, not even the end you hope to achieve. A wrong is a wrong. A sin is a sin. I am not self-righteous. My reputation is not perfectly good, but am trying y very best to improve my reputation and not stain it anymore. It's a tough battle but i want people to think of the good things when they hear my name. I want people to be proud of who i am and not of what i have. When i die, it's how i live my life that matters.