Self-respect, something not everyone possess but something everyone should. Self-respect is having respect for one self, having a regard for one's character, and having a laudable self esteem. For many teenagers growing up, self-respect is often something they struggle with and find it hard to accept or find. When you are young, you try so hard to fit in that you"ll do anything at all to do so. And often, in times like these, you forget about the values that matter, and those values are what make up who you are. It is these values that your self-respect is based on and if you lose sense of those or never see the good in yourself in the first place, possessing self-respect can be difficult.
Joan Didion opens her story with the following sentence: "Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself." (Didion 204) Immediately my attention was grabbed and I was left wondering how someone could make such a profound, depressing, pessimistic statement. Soon after that she says, "It was a matter of misplaced self-respect." (Didion 204) It was then that I realized why she felt this way, and knew that if I read on, I would find a story of a girl, who like many, struggle with who they are, and how others view them. A girl who hasn't yet learned about respecting herself fully.
It is amazing how some events in our lives can shape the person we become. I can think of tiny events in my life, that may be insignificant to others, that have guided me in becoming the person I am today. Such events shape our character and after we have lived through them, leave us with a sense of who we are and what we possess. It is ultimately these factors that give us self-esteem, self-respect, and the confidence we need to conquer anything we face. But these events aren't always beneficial. If you do not possess any self-respect or self-esteem these events can often bring you down even further and make you to think that you are less deserving.
In the middle of the night, I scroll carelessly on Twitter through tons of irrelevant posts, but there was one that caught my eye. It states a true fact about today's generation of kids on how teens follow the crowd and ruthless celebrities. I believe the media turned most of us into the most disre...
Self-respect is probably the most important value for a person. ... I think that self-respect has a lot to do with one's self-esteem. ... In the long run, this will ruin her self-respect. I believe that a person's self-respect will determine the amount of respect that they give and receive from others. ... The amount of respect that a person gives their peers could shape the life and self-respect of another human being. ...
Self-esteem is how you feel about yourself. ... Self-esteem is related to your worth and value. ... It also increases your confidence, if you have confidence, you will respect yourself, which will help you improve your relationships, your achievements, and your happiness. ... "Educators, parents, business and government leaders all agree that we need to develop more individuals with healthy and higher self-esteem, which is characterized by tolerance and respect for others. ... That feeling leads to further growth of self-confidence, self-reliance and self-esteem. ...
Question: Self-esteem is a person positive and negative evaluation of self. How can discrepancies between the real self, ideal self, and ought self affect self-esteem. ... There are three types of self we can look at the real self, the ideal self and the ought self. ... The real, ideal and ought self usually determines a persons self-esteem. ... The other two selves represent what they wish and hope they would be and what important people in their life, who they respect and usually want to please, want. ...
For example, in the first sentence of the second part of Section 3.04, Haverford's Honor Code reads, "Our community's social relationships are also based on mutual trust, concern, and respect.... In addition to cooperation, self-responsibility is another concept that squash regulations promote: if a referee misses a call which the player saw, the player is encouraged to admit the error even if it's not to his advantage. ... From squash, I've glimpsed three foundational principles which form a robust set of ethical guidelines: encouraging an attitude of trustworthiness...
I am a very self-conscience person. ... This is true with the second part of the self-concept assignment, the ideal self. I have a respectable view of myself and since people see my open, nonchalant, and confident attitude, they are more likely to respect me even before I talk to them. ... However most people that he surround his self by think of him as a god. Therefore, his ideal self and perceived-self is most likely one in the same. ...
War brings out your true self. ... Throughout the novel, it is evident that war brings out a deep understanding of ones self. ... Self worth in an individual is a very important aspect of one's character and without self worth a person is influenced quite easily and do not value themselves. ... The second instance of Vivienne's changing self respect in when she finally realizes that she allows people to lead her life and she just stands by because she does not believe she can do any better. ... Vivienne starts to see her true potential and value, thus because of the new found respe...
The imaginative science fiction novel takes the time traveler eight thousand years into the future where he realizes that social position and wealth are not necessarily determinants for the level of wisdom and respect that one may have. ... Not many people are known to have the quality of self-honor. ... This proves to show he has self-honor for himself, and he believes in what he does. ... The character of the female Eloi, Weena, was one in which also obtained self-honor. ... The self-honor that she shared for the Time Traveler had almost gotten her killed by the most feared things in there w...
He pities himself to the point that he wishes to commit suicide, declaring, "Or that the Everlasting had not fixed/ His canon "gainst self-slaughter" (1.2.131-132). After a short time, he again seems self-absorbed when he criticizes the player for his emotion during his performance about the fall of Troy: "What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,/ That he should weep for her?" ... He fails to practice two of the most important virtues of a good man: respect and forgiveness. Instead, he falls in a life of self-obsession and iniquities. ...
