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Honesty

A newborn baby is the honest form of a soul of a human being. I believe, we may have done something good in our previous life, so we have got this human being life. We should thank ourselves as we don’t get anything without our own deeds. As we grow up, slowly we get a cover of dirt called lies or falsehood. Then we get in other bad characters like selfishness, fraudulent behavior, Jealousy, etc. We all have truthfulness naturally. Falsehood comes unnaturally means we add it in our character from outside. It's not our base character.    

But when we complete childhood, honesty becomes a task to achieve as a goal. Although It’s very difficult to achieve. I remember few incidents. One of them confused me about honesty.  During my college days, I used to go by a city bus, a local transport. That day I was just standing at the bus stop waiting for the bus. I had 200bucks in my wallet. Suddenly a transgender came and asked for money. I got really afraid of her without any reason and I paid 100bucks instead of 10bucks in a hurry to rid of him. A man was observing what happened to me. 

Once the transgender moved away, he immediately asked me, “Hey, I have seen everything. Why you gave so much money to him?”  

I said, “What could I do? I was afraid of him.”  

He replied, “Wait here only. I will bring back the money.”  

Without waiting for my consent he ran towards the transgender. 

While he was running I started thinking, “Who says there is no humanity in the world? See this man is so honest that he is fighting for me. Even though I don’t know him.”  

Now the man reached near to the transgender and he pushed him ahead and said something which I could not listen to. But I saw him taking back my money. Looking at him, I was happy as I thought I would get all the money back. But once he reached me he gave only 50bucks. Remaining he kept.  

I asked, “ but I paid 100bucks. You are paying back only 50." He said, “ 50 is the charge to take back money from him.”  

I just kept looking at him. Now in this incident, who is the real honest, me, the man who helped or the transgender?  

Like this honesty looks easy to understand but is very difficult in today's world.

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  1. GabrielNovember 13, 2020 at 8:03 AM

    Honesty is a treasure since it is something difficult to find in people but it exists and must be treasured

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  2. AnonymousMay 22, 2021 at 5:06 AM

    very nice

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