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Let me start off by saying that this is not about the reputation that you have on the thing below your username. This is about reputation among your piers.
Do you like to maintain a good reputation? Or have you hit the Apathy button at this point in life?
There are sometimes in life you have to choose whether to maintain a good reputation among piers or take a risk and because it might lowering your reputation among friends/family. A lot of life to me is about brief instances, where if you don't take a shot, well you will never know. Because of these little instances I think people perceive you as either rash doing them, or dependable for staying set in your ways.
There always comes a time where there is a fork in the road, where you have to actually use your instincts instead of rationalizing, and because of it people will get a bad picture of you. For instance, someone basically takes the piss out of someone for pure lolpoints, and instead of keeping a good reputation about it and staying silent, you retaliate non passively. While your reputation and character perceived by this particular group of friends/coworkers might have been slandered, you now at least stand for something to you.
Also do you take the risk of hanging out with certain questionable people? I hang out around a group of heavily tatoo'd folks in Tupelo, but in Oxford if people saw me hanging around these people, they would automatically think I'm weird/druggy/etc.. whatever stereotype people hold against tatoo'd people.
Sometimes a reputation is worth it granted. My wife is highly opinionated, I'm a bit more passive aggressive when it comes to things. If I see someone doing something I think is ethically wrong on a continuous basis, I'll see to it in my head to strike when the time is right. (paper trail if need be). Anyways.. but for work, I try to stay on good terms with anyone in case folks try to pin something on me, which I've seen happen to other folks. Not that I ever questionably do wrong, but I hang out with people who do. So I'm guilty by association..
So what about you? Do like to maintain a good reputation or is this life to short to worry about that? (chivalry is dead etc..)
Do you like to maintain a good reputation? Or have you hit the Apathy button at this point in life?
There are sometimes in life you have to choose whether to maintain a good reputation among piers or take a risk and because it might lowering your reputation among friends/family. A lot of life to me is about brief instances, where if you don't take a shot, well you will never know. Because of these little instances I think people perceive you as either rash doing them, or dependable for staying set in your ways.
There always comes a time where there is a fork in the road, where you have to actually use your instincts instead of rationalizing, and because of it people will get a bad picture of you. For instance, someone basically takes the piss out of someone for pure lolpoints, and instead of keeping a good reputation about it and staying silent, you retaliate non passively. While your reputation and character perceived by this particular group of friends/coworkers might have been slandered, you now at least stand for something to you.
Also do you take the risk of hanging out with certain questionable people? I hang out around a group of heavily tatoo'd folks in Tupelo, but in Oxford if people saw me hanging around these people, they would automatically think I'm weird/druggy/etc.. whatever stereotype people hold against tatoo'd people.
Sometimes a reputation is worth it granted. My wife is highly opinionated, I'm a bit more passive aggressive when it comes to things. If I see someone doing something I think is ethically wrong on a continuous basis, I'll see to it in my head to strike when the time is right. (paper trail if need be). Anyways.. but for work, I try to stay on good terms with anyone in case folks try to pin something on me, which I've seen happen to other folks. Not that I ever questionably do wrong, but I hang out with people who do. So I'm guilty by association..
So what about you? Do like to maintain a good reputation or is this life to short to worry about that? (chivalry is dead etc..)