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<center> We can't control what other people think about us and no matter what we do, sometimes there just isn't anything that we can do in order to repair our reputation with other people. We could spend the majority of our time being nice to people, helping others, being a good friend, and yet still (inevitably) there could likely come a time when we are confronted with the realization that others will speak negatively about us behind our backs.  

## Sometimes, no matter how nice we are to other people or how much we have done for them, they just aren't going to like us or hold a favorable reputation of us in their mind. That's their prerogative. And we shouldn't worry about it. </center> 

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<center> Our reputation is an idea that is held in the mind of other people who know us, it's not something that we can control and it isn't anything that we own. When I was a lot younger, like during my high school days, I used to worry a lot about what others thought and what they would say, but now I try to spend my time doing more productive things in life than simple worrying over something I cannot change. 

## Some people can build-up a positive reputation over many decades and then have it all come crashing down with just the revelation of one ugly truth or one media story. 

Sure, it's important to be kind to others and try to walk through life with some semblance of personal dignity and compassion for others, but when we fall into worrying about our reputation and how others perceive us then we are just wasting our time. </center> 

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<center> Worry steals our joy and peace of mind and puts us into a stressful, anxiety-ridden downward spin. Or at least for some it easily can. We might spend a lot of time worrying about what someone else has said and it could be just a fiction that we've concocted in our minds. </center>

<center> Most of the time we are simply flattering ourselves into entertaining the idea that people we know are doing nothing but sitting around somewhere in the world talking negatively about us. But quite often, people are just going on about their daily lives, going after their own goals and thinking about their own problems, 
## and they don't have time to sit around and think or speak negatively about you. </center>

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<center> Worry is a waste of our imagination and we might be able to find some more time in our lives for the things that we actually do enjoy, when we move away from doing the things that don't produce anything that offers any benefit to our life. </center>