Surrendered

"One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered."
Michael J. Fox

Do you let other people tell you who you are? There are always going to be people who disapprove of you and who are very happy to tell you a long list of things that are wrong with you (especially teenager children). Your parents may have told you that you weren't as smart as your sibling or that you were too fat. They probably meant it to mean that you could study harder or watch your diet more. But when you're small you just accept it as a fact. You beleive that they know more about you than you do, so whatever they say must be right. But it often isn't.

But it's not just parents who tell us that we aren't good enough (or teenage children). We may have heard it from our teachers, our pastor or priest, or some other person we looked up to. But almost all of us have had our dignity assaulted, vandalized, or cruelly mocked at some point in our life.

The big question is how are you going to deal with it. When you were little, you just learned things, and surrendered your dignity because you didn't know any better. But now you do. No matter what someone says to us as adults, we can make a conscious choice about whether we will give away our dignity by beleiving and agreeing with what they say or not. The truth is that only we can decide whether we choose to surrender our dignity. Other people can't take it by force, we have to give it away to them. Resolve never to let anyone else from now on ever take your dignity from you.

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