English writing assignment 1

Last year, the financial crisis made a lot of people out of employment.  As a result of which, we all found that it was harder to make a living. Some people may concern that the unemployment could cause living problems and propose that the government should provide those people with basic living products. However, I believe the damage to the heart is more importmant. Being unemployed can cause people to lose their self-respect.

People who lost their jobs need to confront with the living problem. They need to feed themselves and their families if they are married. Even though we might have enough savings to survive the unemployed period,  people are still worried. It is hard to remain the self-respect state of mind when a person needs to worry about what to eat tomorrow. Losing the job definitely could change the standard of living which could damage the self-respect. People might think I used to eat out in the restaurant and now I have to cook the dinner myself. The adaption to that is not easy.

Another reason of people losing their self-respect is about the value of life. When people have a good job, they believe they are useful to the society. Once they lost their jobs, their careers were ruined. People may think I am useless now. Everyone wants to be needed and that feeling is horrible when you feel you are discarded by the society.

Thirdly but not the least, the unemployed have to face the judgement from other people. It is never easy to pretend nothing when your neighbors talking gossip about you. Sometimes people have faith in themselves, we believe everything is gonna be OK. We tell ourselves that the economic crisis will come over and we could get a new job. It's those gossips that make people feel bad. They just begin to suspect themselves and definitely this could damage people's self-respect.

All in all, self-respect means a lot to people especially to those who are unemployed. The society should pay more attention to this issue and make preparations to prevent this situation.