Honor Yourself

" A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles"

My last blog I thanked a lot of people for waiting for my blogs. Here are some people whom you don’t know and they benefit from what you have to say. But then there are also some people whom you may have a close association with and they neither care nor bother about you. 

Something of similar to this happened when what was supposed to be an old friend called up a few days back. We had a fall out because we didn’t see eye to eye about each others’ moral values and had polar opposite views about principles of life. So I was surprised to receive this call and while he chatted about his new job and new life, I had the urgency to hang up. Two days ago I receive a background verification call about this same person from a company and this time I was not so surprised to find out that he had given fake documents. The whole reason about the call just flashed by and more than hurt it is disgust to know that I had at one time called him my friend. 

People close to me know that I live by some moral principles and ethics which I don't compromise with. He knew that about me too considering the number of times I had reprimanded him for a number of activities and yet the audacity to create phony documents knowing well enough that they would eventually come to me for verification and then calling me to butter me up.. Man!! How shallow can you get! Anyway, I am done with such people.

On a different note, people who read this, please have a decent set of values and principles to lead your life. Lying and cheating should not be a standard code of conduct. A job is too petty a thing to compromise your values for it and moreover the chances are that if you are honest about yourself you need not live with the fear of losing your job once the truth comes out. 

Thank You

"Act like what you do makes a difference. It does"

Well, Its been a while since I have written and for no particular reason. Once in a while I get into a phase where I want to be alone. I don't communicate and I usually tend to go off the radar so that phase just ended and for future reference any silence from me means I am in transit. :)

I visited a bookstore yesterday and randomly picked up a book of no relevance, but flipped a page and something caught my eye. What I read was this: If you were the last person alive on earth and you were a painter, would you still paint?
For all of us ingrained is a need to be appreciated, acknowledged and recognized. So most of the time no matter how much we say that we are doing things for ourselves, we still want someone else to acknowledge it. When I started writing, I thought I was doing it for myself but over time as my stats said otherwise, I started keeping the posts to myself and soon after just stopped posting.
Few days back I logged into a popular social network after months of being off it and  from some 30 odd messages which I thought would be from friends was (pleasantly) surprised to see that most of them were actually from strangers wanting to know why I stopped writing and requesting me to start again. There was a mail with the subject "for my role model". I didn't know I could be of that high importance. I was just expressing myself through my writings and to be called a role model is something I hadn't really expected. It meant the world to me and the whole day was spent with a smiley stuck to my face.
I am humbled and gratified by this encouragement and it made something clear to me that it doesn't really matter who and how one reciprocates but even if there is one person who is listening that itself is the reason not to stop.
To all of you who have diligently followed even my absence a BIG THANK YOU. It gives me the sense of responsibility for what I write and express my sincere gratitude for bringing my confidence back..

Love and gratitude,
Tithee