...be a man about it and let her know that I screwed up. I can't really see us getting back together and me being happy about it, at least not in the near future. In the end, I got my ring, left the collage and my dignity in her room. It's going to take time, and it's going to take work, but I'm confident that I can get back to where I was, feeling good about myself and making healthy decisions.

...about you. but as they say, it is better to extend help to those you know that won't be able to repay you back... rather than giving gifts or favors to people who will surely repay you. dying with dignity. a few days ago i received the sad news that one of our beloved High School teachers died. and i thought of him as this mentor who shared his life with us during my formative years in HS way back...

Aristotle considered dignity to be one of the most important virtues, a great noble good.  Dignity is our ability to control the desire for recognition and honor.  It includes being able to realize which of our actions are honorable and rewarding ourselves for them.  It also means not begging to be honored by everyone around.  Compulsive attention seekers lack dignity.  It mediates between pride and...

...scheduled in a performance with the Chicago Symphony this August, I was prepared to prostitute myself to see her, but gave up on the idea when realising that Hilary Duff had an album called "Dignity"... and she probably doesn't even know what the word means. I sincerely doubt that any of these future J-New attendees deserve to see her nearly as much as I do. *sigh* I opted not to go to school...

... but the restraint, the calm with which each situation was approached – methodically. It is not so much that it sanitised anything, for detailed descriptions of the horrors still remained, but that the dignity with which they were expressed, bare, deprived of sensationalism took me back - horror in its natural state, without spotlights, headlines or captions. Horror has become so common, so widely advertised...

...about the American gymnast who fell off the beam. Then fell during her floor routine. She was almost in tears. It takes about 10 seconds to realise that and get out of her face. It didn't happen, they hounded her until the next girl went up, then they came right back to her. Let them have some dignity people! BACK OFF! I think those media peoples are lucky to still have their nuggies in place.

...drinks with some friends for my birthday. It was so lovely to see everyone, especially Jon, who I have really missed since college let out. I have such an affection for him. He is one of the most genuinely lovely people i know. I drank far too many Cosmos, walked in heels that were obscenely high, but hey, at least I had style. I remain without dignity, but its nice to have a constant in my life x

If someone seriously said this to you in a disappointed tone…   “After so long you still never change…”   How would you answer?   Me?  ... Caused I know I’m not alone   Cheers!     To be continued…

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...very meaningful lately. The first... "I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me...All I ask is that you respect me as a human being" - Jackie Robinson && The second... "Never take a persons dignity; it is worth everything to them, and nothing to you." -Frank Barron. As far as respect goes, to me, it is the hardest thing to earn, and the easiest thing to manipulate. If you do not like me...