Dignity

Dignity is an important aspect in keeping a society together. It banishes the feelings of resentment, it promotes a productive attitude and promotes a happy lifestyle free from dissatisfaction.

Dignity is in other words, 'keeping your head low eventhough how high you are'. A dignified person commands respect of everyone around him. But there are of course two extreme aspects when it comes to this topic.

One one extreme is: not having dignity at all.
The other extreme is: too much dignity, until one loses their self confidence

Not having dignity at all

In other words, people who just like to brag and don't know that their brags actually destroys others in the process. When I say destroy I mean cause resentment and sub consciously promotes unfriendly rivalry. Bragging is actually a virus in the society. When people brag, they cause others to brag, and the people infected by this 'bragging' disease will in turn affect others around them. Finally, the whole society is infected with this disease and dissatisfaction occurs.

People having this disease have a few traits in common. They are self centered, they tend to spend more than they can afford, they like to boast to others about the very small blessings they have from God. They interprete everything they hear around them as people bragging. But yet they don't know, that whatever blessings they got, it comes from God. They forget. But yet they say that their families are the holiest ones of them all. How ironic. (Paradox)

Having too much dignity

Having too much of a good thing, or perhaps anything at all is not good. We need to drink. But too much water harms your body. We need protein, but too much protein harms yourself. We need love, but too much love could prove suffocating. So much as we need dignity. But too much causes us to lose our confidence. We tend not to put any price at all on ourselves. We in turn become scared to volunteer. So frail. We who are strong see ourselves as weak. We become to accepting that we let the world become cruel.

Be in the middle

Many great people live in the middle. They eat sparingly. They don't destroy themselves. The chinese believe in a concept called yin and yang which means achieving complete balance in anything. Religion tells us to be medium in anything we do. Not to be an unbeliever and at the same time not being an extremist. So much as dignity. So I hope that all of you could benefit from my writing.