If you look around you today, you will see that life is lost. So many lives are purely lost and in search of seeking a life of stability, perpetual growth, meaning, and peace. If you examine the way people live, they live empty lives with no sense of the aforementioned. No sense of what it means to live a life that meets the needs of what we innately need, and that is dignity. The one lost virtue today. 

Some of us have lost what it means to be a dignified human being in accordance to what logic has to tell you right. And the shocking fact is that if you were to inquire from the hedonists, those who derive pleasure by seeking pleasure as the remedy to all life’s mishap, they attest the opposite. Life truly needs one of dignity to provide one with real bliss.

You see, we are more than ready to teach people how to live, but we never set the example of a life that safeguards one, away from what can ruin one’s purity, and that is dignity. The natural imposition we ought to remain within, so long as we are alive. That keeps you safe. It governs you and allows to respectfully have respect for yourself—real respect. And you become respected and loved by your loved ones and society. This is what we need today. We need to become respectful to ourselves. We need to understand the harms a life of immorality will rest on you, and your future. The depression it will lead you to and the misery it can resurrect upon you. This means the pulverization you can rot in alone, the failed marriage that can become a reality, the children who will have no moral or practical guidance, your parents and siblings who will dessert you for the hot mess you have reckoned to be, and the flaw you will vividly be known amongst the plethora of your community and the world. The undignified person you will look at yourself and hate it. Contempt it. And perhaps, see suicide as the solution. 

For failing to live as a dignified human being…

Here are some ways to circumvent yourself onto illustriously dignified chapters:

1. Know what it means to be an innocent human. It does not signify for you to become more versed in having more riches, prettiness, or fast cars, big homes and Rolex watches. Gucci and Louis Vuitton purses if you are a women. It means for you know that before you see these items of a respected emblem, that you believe provides you with prestige and hype amongst your peers, see yourself as one and BUILD it! That is being real to yourself; not real with your possessions. Curate your existence for what it is, and not for what it should never be. Pour the grains of dignity and realize that you are already a dignified human, that has failed in seeing its worth for a while gone too long. Be the gem of royalty you see in yourself, first, and that is the first step to personal-esteem.
2. Know your purpose. What do you stand for? What really provides you with worth in life? And I say really, because you can think that a Ferrari will grant your personal worth amongst society, or the body you brandish seductively, but does it really deposit genuine worth to the discipline paid on your behalf in being dignified? Does it show that you are real for the individual you wholeheartedly need to be, roundly? Knowing your purpose establishes a ground of genuineness, and there is no better alternative than being real with yourself. For being real, means sincerity—the will to acknowledge who you must and always be. That is the pure belief of dignity. And being real, means being truthful—showing yourself in that regard, for as long as you remain. That is the practice of dignity. Standing for a set of ideals that keep you together, is as crucial in knowing your body comprises of 60% water, and so water is life. What you dignifiedly stand for, is real life from you, and that is the essence of your soul and body.
3. Stay away from the bad ones. Our friends either make us, or ruin us. However, with values, we end up weathering their garbage and so this is why some can remain snug in their secure confines. More often though, our friends render to be the reason for a failed grasp of one’s own life. If you live or steer with friends who walk with no principality of dignity, understand very well: you WILL become one of them. The next lad who will continue steering other innocent humans, away from their dignity—just like the other lads. Pick your friendships wisely, but most importantly, do not desert them. Be the sincere and truthful change for them, as well.
4. Composure. I cannot stress this enough; focus rigidly! In a world where so many are loose-canons barraging all over, very little have the will to become composed on their own. And that means, controlling your desires. Controlling the evil proclivity that entices you towards evil—indignity. Be extremely wary that your nobility rests on the sacrificial effort and toil you exert, until you traverse past indignity. It is to be different in how you see pleasure, that many see as humanistic progression, tragically. A sheer backwardness it actually is, in sight of humanistic ruin and individual demoralization. Hold yourself in the face of indignity, and firmly acknowledge the life-long obligation you owe to your soul. Its purity, peace and assurances, is more critical to your personal fulfillment, than momentous pleasures of its demotion, and doom.