Not Quite Who I Am

Our reputation, is that who we are?
The desire to maintain our reputation prevent us from being who we are. Reputation doesn't define us. What truly defines us is what we really are but it seems like nobody knows that but ourselves. We have to set these insecurities away. These are the things that people see you as but not who you really are. Some people devote their energies in pursuit of building a good reputation. In a society like ours, it is very hard to gain and quite easy to lose. People look up to you when you have a good name. It is also a reality that all the years of hard work to maintain a good reputation, in just one fatal mistake, it can change in a blink of an eye. Thinking not to disgrace our reputation, we take caution in every move we make, making sure nothing changes, causing us to be something we're not quite are. Honestly, we do this everyday we just don't realize it anymore. How do we know? Well, we will know if it seems like we act differently in different places like at home or in school. A different reputation at home and a different one for school too. Fairly, it starts to feel like a burden sometimes. We seem to be like a puppet controlled by the reputation that we have. These strings finally come off when nobody's looking. 

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Life is kinda built on the reputation we have. If it isn't that good then things don't really go as well as we hope it should. But it depends on how we handle it. If our reputation is good then things are bound to be good but not all the time. But again, it can change. We can never say. But to sum it up, we shouldn't let our reputation rule us nor let it dictate us on what to do. But what we are and who we want to be have a fine line between them. Knowing who we really are and sticking to it will eventually make us feel at peace with ourselves.