SEE YOURSELF
Today I like to start by saying life is 30% who you are and 70% what others think you are. Seeing yourself as a good person is your opinion, others opinion about you will determine how they react to you and there's little or nothing you can do about it. Being a mischievous child, I've often gotten away with a lot of things because everyone thought I was a good and quiet boy. Oh yeah I was quiet, but good would depend on the scenario 😂. My very close friends knew me as the viper, while everyone else knew me as the church boy. Not as though I was trying to hide my identity, being the church boy was all part of my mischievousness. Today I can only look back and smile at the things I got away with, like how I beat up one of my seniors that earned me the name viper…
With all I did I was never caught red handed, for the seniors beating, he deserved it for being a bully, and also sent messages to his classmates who wanted to retaliate but thought I was in a cult. So yeah public image matters a lot. Recently I had to get some official paperworks that would clear me for service (NYSC), and I saw a lot of people bribing their way to make things easier for them. I thought about it for a moment and decided not to. Not because I wasn't having the financial capacity to do so, nor was it because I was scared of what could be the outcome but because of the reputation I have built for myself in the long run. All through my school days I have never cheated in an exam, and had only bribed a lecturer once and that was because he made it compulsory for passing his course during my early days when I wasn't familiar with how the school system worked.
Later in life I decided to have a code that I have been living by, I wouldn't want to have to cheat my way to get things done, instead I would let it go seeing nothing is compulsory except life is involved. With this code I have been able to live a life that has made me distinct around my peers. There's a way everyone sees me, not as a pastor but as someone they can trust to do what is right. I hope to continue living like that because I know a time would come, the reputation I've built for myself as a youth would be needed for my verdict. During my secondary school days, I had a reputation of breaking girls' hearts. At one point girls wouldn't say yes to me because they were scared their hearts would be broken. And even when I was ready to change it was hard for them to see me for who I was trying to become.
This is why I decided that when I turned on a new leave, there was no going back. I would do well to keep on making my reputation good. Not in pretense, but try to be someone that I can be proud of. I've made mistakes along the way, and would continue making mistakes because I'm human. But I will never let those mistakes define me, but will ensure that I strive to change the narrative and keep my reputation so everyone sees I'm just a guy trying to do the right thing and would always be that guy. Even when I make mistakes, I would continue trying to fix them so those around me would see I'm not invincible, I won't brag about things I've done and haven't done, but will try to be the man that would keep doing good.
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Seems i'll start reading your post often, it now want to look like i don't know my brother at all. Lol😅
I was praying you wouldn't come across it😂🤦
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STOPSo heart breaker!!! You’ve been breaking hearts Ehn? Then you will come and sit down like one innocent penguin in the City 🤣 let me catch you sitting down again 😂
Calm down ma, I am innocent
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I guess this is the part where you were trying to be a big boy but forgot you were building a reputation.
Good thing is we cannot be defined by the mistakes of our past
Yes, I was ooo.... How dumb I was
Baddo🤣
Change is something constant and you're so right that the way people perceive us matter a lot, making an effort to be a better person is really commendable. Well done.
Popped in from Dreemport, always an awesome #dreemerforlife.
I'm happy for the change. Thanks for stopping by
I also hold onto that principle of not cheating my way to get something. Patient is the key here and protecting one's reputation is important. Some would say I am too soft but I don't care as long as I am doing the right thing and knowing, if it is meant for me, it will come and if not, we move.
Sometimes people might eventually cheat their way into getting what's yours, but it's okay to stick with your values
Yes oo. It pays actually to stick to one's value.
E weee! See some true confession 🤣🤣🤣🤣. OK, just teasing. I love how you have set some principles and trying your best to stick to them.
#dreemerforlife
Such is life bro
Aww Lee min ho the heartbreaker 😂
Nice to see you've set some principles to live by,all the very best ✨ #dreemport
I don't know this Lee min ho, but I know it's from a Korean movie
Yh, he's a Korean actor
You had the reputation of breaking girls heart...you know all I was saying after reading this?
We are both lucky we didn't cross each other's path because enn, It would have been war of you break my heart 😂
It's a good thing you are working on yourself. Everyone is a workin progress.
#dreemerforlife
Ha, thank God we didn't cross paths ooo. But then again, it could have been different hehe
Different keh 🙄😂
There is this general assumption that quiet people are the most dangerous and I think it is true. People often think others opinions about them doesn't matter, whereas it is what defines us in places where our voices and appearance is absent.
Thank God you are not courting anyone on hive blog because after reading this, I'm sure they know their date 😂
Pop in from #dreemport
#Dreemerforlife
😂😂😂. You can't be too sure of that