Reputation: An Apple In Your Eye

In life, peoples opinion about an individual is important, these opinions are based on actions performed in the past. An individuals reputation may endanger or protect him, therefore, in every situation an individual finds himself, the opinions of people always count. An individual's reputation is hinged on the opinions of people about him. When a majority of the people in an individual's society have a certain opinion about a person, then that opinion accounts as the reputation of that individual.

Building a reputation either good or bad is very difficult as it may be as long as a lifetime, but actually maintaining that reputation is the real work. When a reputation is built, such a person must work hard to maintain that reputation as a change in society's opinion about a person could lead to his downfall. The key to maintaining a reputation is doing nothing less that being careful.

Reputation, Either good or bad is function of the level a person will attain in life, also, it is a function of the places aperson is found. When a large percentage of the people in a particular society have a negative opinion about anybody, the people in such a society will crave for the banishment of such a person from that society. The decision to have a good or bad reputation depends on the choices a person makes. In life, we choose to be good or otherwise, society dictates whatever is right and whatever is right and wrong. Therefore to have a good reputation, a person's action must mimic the right principles as dictated by the society.

A good reputation always have a tendency of being tarnished, it is in human nature to build and destroy, but destruction seems east as it requires less cunning. People will always want to destroy one's reputation, but it takes wisdom and resilience to maintain a good reputation. One must act cautiously when protecting one's reputation bearing in mind that utopia is unattainable an as such one must have critics. Society celebrates one with good reputation, never allow anything to mar it.