Decency and Dignity
by Michael Feeley
Say them out loud.
Decency.
Dignity.
Feel what happens. Something stirs deep inside you — in that quiet place where your truest self lives. Where your values are not negotiable and your principles are not for sale.
These are not soft words. They are not polite suggestions or social niceties we dust off for company. Decency and dignity are the architecture of a life lived with intention. They are the invisible spine that holds everything upright.
Living by these words sometimes costs you something. There will be moments when the world offers you indecency, and you must choose not to return it. Moments when someone strips the dignity from a room, and you quietly restore it — not with fanfare, but with presence. With example. With the simple, radical act of living one way.
That is the harder path. And it is the only path worth walking.
For those of us in our vintage years, decency and dignity are not aspirations. They are achievements. Hard-won. Lived-through. Earned in the difficult rooms, the unfair situations, the moments when no one was watching and we still chose well.
You carry these words in your body. In the way you enter a room and walk in the world. In the way you listen. In the way you treat people who cannot do a single thing for you.
Decency. Dignity.
They are not what you demand from others.
They are what you consistently are and offer the world.
Thanks – Michael (he, him)
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This also matters – Respect for People and Things.
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