What am I worth?

I am not talking in terms of money. I am talking about what value am I contributing to society. Does my word mean anything?

When you are young, you are taught the basic courtesies - you know say please and thank you, if you make a promise don't break it, if you give them your word, then keep it, take care of others and their properties like you do your own, be considerate of others, return calls immediately.

But the more I look around I find that that is disappearing. Or maybe I have not seen it in a while cause I am always correcting my kids on the list mentioned above.

What I have found is that it does not matter where you are from, what school you went to or how much money you make - in the end you are judged by your character and if you keep your word.

If you don't keep your word - nobody will say anything the first time, but after that nobody will expect anything from you. Period.