Past few days, I have been very keen on observing the people around me - at college or malls or metro stations or in the neighbourhood. There is a striking similarity between all of them! All of these people are more concerned about their REPUTATION rather than their CHARACTER. When I am at college, its obvious that the guys around got to be careful and defensive regarding their REPUTAION amongst the mass. You just try to badinage with them, and they are like your worst enemy. At malls/public places, I have observed a minor change in the behaviour of people- at crowded places they become even more concious of their Image/looks or in short try to behave in a sophisticated urbane manner.
You must have noticed that in a group, if someone does a good deed like helping someone on the road, everyone follows what he has done. But later , if a person is alone and the same situation arises, he will definitely ignore the situation nad move on. So this act of ignorance was nothing but a true reflection of that person's Character. In a group he helped just because others were helping and had he not helped, his Reputation would suffer.
So one's Character is something he actually/really is and one's Reputation is what merely others think of him. Also Character is what we actually do when we think no one's looking.
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