Don’t outsource your dignity

Dignity is the ultimate social currency.

With dignity comes accountability and self awareness.

Or perhaps dignity is only possible through self awareness and accountability.

But accountability is an outcome of self respect and integrity which in turn demands that we care more about who we are and what we stand for than what we want others to think of us.

That’s when it gets complicated.

It gets complicated when we focus on what we are likely to lose from others if we take a stand about what we believe to be important.

But that complication is not because the issue is complicated.

It’s because we complicate our lives by contaminating it with what we want others to see in us instead of being true to our values and principles regardless of what they think.

Dignity demands that we be open to correction because of the shame we feel when we are dishonest.

It demands that we protect the dignity of others because we must not be able to live with ourselves if we willingly and consciously look away when another is treated poorly.

What we would want from others in our time of need or vulnerability is what we must offer.

If not, we sow seeds of hypocrisy in our hearts which eventually contaminate the entirety of our being because dignity is lost and validation from others becomes the only peace we will know.

Your dignity is yours to claim.

Don’t outsource it in exchange for popularity or personal gain.

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