Esteem.

We end up giving certain people more credit than they deserve, than what they've earned, sheerly because a certain part of us is invested in them for no credible or apparent reason, ergo, putting them on a pedestal. Not that this is right or wrong, but just that what this does is, sometimes, you lose your own value.

Hello there, I am the Earthian.

I am all for the idea of treating people well. But when it happens at the expense of your own dignity, when it happens because you voluntarily put yourself out there, when it happens because you feed the words to be used against you to all of those who would very well do it, the whole point of carrying yourself with dignity vanishes. Sure, people have a lot to say about who you are and who they think you should be, but sometimes, when you're being treated like a mule because of your own consent, you might want to reconsider why it is that you're letting them get away with it. What makes them so valuable that you're letting them have a go at you and get away with it? Why is it that you're putting them on a pedestal? Any kind of relationship that involves you and another person where either one is on a different level from the other is a relationship that isn't going to last. It just won't. You being polite can largely be misconceived as your inability or your incompetence. You know who you are more than you would know anyone else in your entire lifetime and treating yourself right is of paramount importance. Ponder.

Love, peace.