During my days as an educator, once when a child did not do his work and was asked the reason for the same he innocently told me “my mom has told to say I had fever last evening”. On further enquiring about his health, he told “actually we went to a party, but mom told me to say about fever only”. Though the innocence of the child brought a smile on my face at that time, it even compelled me to think that are we guiding our children in a right way?
We blame politicians, government officers, advertisement makers, and every body around us for being dishonest, irresponsible, and untrustworthy in some or the other way but are we not lined up in the same queue?
We have grown up listening the proverb “honesty is the best policy” and the stories of truthfulness of Gandhi. We take immense pleasure to share these with our younger generation. Though we achieve in passing the stories, we fail in passing values because at some or the other time we fail to reflect them in our own deeds. The white lies we tell to our employer, our relatives or some time to our own selves make an impression in the mind of kiddos.
But what makes us do so? Is that our fear?
The fear of getting punished or rejected, being demeaned and insulted compels us to be dishonest. An honest person in our society has to struggle hard whereas a guy with fraudulent moves makes an easy way.
And as they “a child does what he sees”; our coming generations might resort to unfair means to get their work done.
Do we want this to happen? Certainly not…Better late then never, we need to value honesty. A righteous person needs to be appreciated even if he accepts that he has done a mistake. To be honest is to have courage to face the world and to make the world a better place we must regard it.
William Shakespeare has rightly quoted “Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.” And we definitely do not want ourselves to be enveloped in darkness…so let’s light up our souls and treasure honesty.
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