At The End Of The Day

　shit about every choice you make in life. At the end of the day when you look into a mirror what are your thoughts about yourself going to be. Do you feel like you have respect for yourself or are you not happy with the choices of that day and the events that happened. Happiness and self-respect go hand in hand and that'll never change. Life is full of choices and every choice will allow you to have self-respect or none at all. If you are an America then smile, all your choices are free and no one can make them for you, so you can control your own self-respect and happiness. One will never be truly happy until they respect themselves.

At The End Of The Day

　
John Herschel once said "Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue. " My grandmother loved this saying and believed respect is the greatest accomplishment. She taught me to see that without respect of any kind one will never truly be happy, but if you respect all, including yourself, you will learn and grow to become happy.
I believe that self-respect is more important to me then happiness. I feel that if you respect yourself than you will be happy. If you don't respect your self than you will never be happy. Self-respect will always hold the key to my happiness. The choices you make in life can show that you have self-respect and if you make the right choice for yourself to have self-respect you will learn to be happy about the choice. For example when making the choice not to return to work after having my son was born two months early by the doctors request. I wasn't happy but I respected my self for putting my son first, then I grew to be happy with my choice. I become happy to see his first everything and it has given me the opportunity to return to school full time.
There are always going to be some cases where self-respect will come first but then there will be cases like revenge will come first; which is just one thing that can happen, for you to not think of self-respect. If you want revenge for something then you will end up losing all self-respect because two wrongs don't make a right. I believe that if one feels the need for revenge self-respect has been long gone and your happiness is gone with it. Also revenge will not truly bring one happiness. For example your boyfriends cheat on you and you go out and cheat with someone else. In the end you get revenge but you lose your self-respect and you may feel happy at first but two wrongs don't make a right. Or you can end the relationship or work through the problems and still have your self-respect.
Self-respect is taken for granted by so many around us. When you don't put self-respect first you will feel like